amphetaminism
nounEtymology From amphetamine + -ism.
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Medicine, Sciences Behaviour caused by taking amphetamines.
- 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.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings: