ambulism

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English

Etymology

From Latin ambulō (I walk) +‎ -ism.

Noun

ambulism (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) A disorder involving walking.
    • 1916, Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long, Analytical Psychology:
      These, apart from nocturnal ambulism, are the simplest conditions of systematised partial waking.

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