ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Amphetaminism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Amphetaminism is a noun meaning (medicine) Behaviour caused by taking amphetamines.

Meaning

(medicine) Behaviour caused by taking amphetamines.

Example Sentences

Later still, her images became highly stylized, intricate, with obsessed, repetitive motifs, labyrinthine, until they resembled Louis Wain's crystalline cats. Such drawings are also rather characteristic of Tourette's syndrome — the original form, the original thought, lost in a jungle of embellishment — and in the so-called 'speed-art' of amphetaminism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include amphetaminic, amphetaminil, methamphetamines, amfetaminil, pharmacomania, alpha-methylphenethylamine.

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