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Tourettish

Tourettish adjective: of or relating to Tourette syndrome.

Adjective

Tourettish (comparative more Tourettish, superlative most Tourettish)

  1. Of or relating to Tourette syndrome.
    • She readily accommodates Tourettish excitement, finding room for it in the outskirts of a commodious personality, and even gaining a certain advantage and pleasure from the extraordinary swiftness of thought and invention which goes with it.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

Forms of Tourettish

comparativemore Tourettish
superlativemost Tourettish

Origin of Tourettish

From Tourette syndrome + -ish.

Questions about Tourettish

What does Tourettish mean?
Tourettish means of or relating to Tourette syndrome.
What part of speech is Tourettish?
Tourettish is an adjective.

Words near Tourettish in the dictionary

  1. Touretter
  2. Touretters
  3. tourettes
  4. Tourettic
  5. touretting
  6. Tourettish
  7. tourettism
  8. tourettisms
  9. Touretty
  10. tourgoer
  11. tourgoers

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