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English
Etymology
amphetamine + -ism
Noun
amphetaminism (uncountable)
- (medicine) Behaviour caused by taking amphetamines.
1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings: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.
Translations
behaviour caused by taking amphetamines