Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A form of insanity in which a person believes himself to be one of the lower animals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.

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  • noun medicine A kind of delusion in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.

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  • noun the delusion that you have assumed the form of an animal

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  • How have I missed this? What a word! Ionescu, here it is!

    May 10, 2008

  • What if it's not a delusion?

    May 10, 2008

  • *moos*

    May 10, 2008

  • Goes hand-in-hoof with aboiement.

    May 11, 2008

  • *slaps his flippers in agreement*

    May 12, 2008

  • That would be therianthropy.

    May 13, 2008

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    July 18, 2010