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formicatory

formicatory adjective: of or relating to formication.

Adjective

formicatory (comparative more formicatory, superlative most formicatory)

  1. Of or relating to formication.
    • It was clear that the action of the drug was, in a sense, unpredictable, in that it might call forth a variety of behaviours: given the initial form of behaviour — whether tongue-pulsing, therapeutic, catatonic, ticcy-palilalic, formicatory, or hallucinatory — the rest of the reaction would follow...1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Forms of formicatory

comparativemore formicatory
superlativemost formicatory

Questions about formicatory

What does formicatory mean?
Formicatory means of or relating to formication.
What part of speech is formicatory?
Formicatory is an adjective.

Words near formicatory in the dictionary

  1. formicates
  2. formicating
  3. formication
  4. formications
  5. formicative
  6. formicatory
  7. formicid
  8. formicide
  9. formicides
  10. formicids
  11. formiciform

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