Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tarantism

1 sense of tarantism

Sense 1
tarantism -- (a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider)
       => chorea -- (any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs)