amputeeism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]amputeeism (uncountable)
- 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.