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choromania

choromania is the alternative form of choreomania.

Meaning of choreomania

Noun

choreomania (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of tarantism (“dance mania; dance epidemic”).
    • In full view of the public, this is the apogee of the choreomania that tormented Strasbourg for a midsummer month in 1518. Also known as the “dancing plague”, it was the most fatal and best documented of the more than ten such contagions which had broken out along the Rhine and Moselle rivers since...2018 July 10, Ned Pennant-Rea, “The Dancing Plague of 1518”, in Public Domain Review
    Synonyms:
    tarantism

Questions about choromania

What is choromania the alternative form of?
Choromania is the alternative form of choreomania.

Words near choromania in the dictionary

  1. chorologist
  2. chorologists
  3. chorology
  4. Choromandel
  5. Choromandell
  6. choromania
  7. choromatography
  8. chorometry
  9. Choron sauce
  10. choronym
  11. choronyms

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