Definitions for tarantism

tarantism tar·ant·ism

Spelling: [tar-uh n-tiz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈtær ənˌtɪz əm/

Tarantism is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 474 anagrams from letters in tarantism (aaimnrstt).

Definitions for tarantism

noun

  1. a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.

Origin of tarantism

From the New Latin word tarantismus, dating back to 1630-40. See Taranto, -ism

Examples for tarantism

Historians would draw parallels between her recurring Voices and the "tarantism" of the Middle Ages.

It is affecting people in much the same way as tarantism, or the dancing sickness, affected the Italians in the middle ages.

It was supposed to cause the disease known as tarantism: the victim was seized with a mad desire to dance.

Finally, tarantism has declined more and more in modern times, and is now limited to single cases.

At the close of the fifteenth century tarantism had spread beyond the borders of Apulia.

The tarantism so common in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century is another example of epidemic hysteria.

This form of "possession," then, passed out of the supernatural domain, and became known as "tarantism."

Under such favourable circumstances, it is clear that tarantism must every year have made further progress.

It is certain, however, that tarantism was very prevalent in earlier times.

One of the best known of these diseases is 'tarantism,' or the frenzy produced by the bite of the Tarantula, in Italy.

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