tarantism

1. 1.

   a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider

   Broaderchorea

Other forms of tarantism

plural

tarantisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tarantism

What does tarantism mean?

tarantism means "a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider".

How many syllables are in tarantism?

tarantism has 3 syllables: ta-ran-tism. The stress falls on "ta".

Is tarantism a common word?

tarantism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.