amputeeism

English

Etymology

amputee +‎ -ism

Noun

amputeeism (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being an amputee.
    • 2008, Belinda Bennett, Terry Carney, Isabel Karpin, Brave New World of Health, page 78:
      Voluntary amputeeism or apotemnophilia — where the subject wishes to have a limb or appendage removed — might arguably fall within the category of radical body modification.
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