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tarantism 

The uncontrollable urge to dance to relieve one's melancholy.
I think I've got a bad case of tarantism, I just can't seem to stop myself from getting down and funky.

It's really a word, look it up in the real dictionary.
tarantism by sean82fta September 5, 2005

tarantism 

(TAR-uhn-tiz-uhm)- An uncontrollable urge to dance - After Taranto, a town in southern Italy where this phenomenon was experienced during the 15-17th centuries. It's not clear whether tarantism was the symptom of a spider's bite or its cure, or it may have been just a pretext to dodge a
prohibition against dancing. The names of the dance tarantella and the spider tarantula are both derived from the same place.
"The director is in a wild delirium, spinning in circles as though stricken with tarantism, his whirring camera held at arm's length, panning, tilting, arcing and oscillating and making other moves that have no name."
tarantism by JRob August 25, 2006

Taranism 

A religion named after Taran who is the all father of the world and his bible is in the hands of kids and there pornography covered minds
Taranism is a religion
Taranism by Ghost powdered February 27, 2017

Tiamatism 

Tiamatism, also Tiamatianism, is the name of the cult to the goddess Tiamat, tiamatism believes that Tiamat is not an evil dragon, but that she has a lot of personalities and forms, and that she represents mother nature, mother universe and the universe and existence itself. Tiamatism also believes on the other Anunnaki gods, but keeping focused on Tiamat, and it also believes in Zuism, and also being referred as Tiamatite Zuism, a form of zuism that uses of Tiamatism as its basis. Tiamatism also believes that the natural and extranatural; physical and extraphysical; material and extraphysical are the same but on different levels of existence and on different states, and also believes on worship of nature and existence such as on the best efforts for preservate nature and existence and always focusing on reach a high level of being and always evolving spiritually, empathetically, emotionally and mentally in order to reach a high level of being and existence. Tiamatism also believes in the law of polarity and that everything on the universe and existence tend to be balanced and that chaos and order always balance between themselves and that love is the chaos.
"Tiamatism is a cool neopagan religion, mainly for the fact that it seeks to rehabilitate Tiamat and show that she's not actually an evil dragon but a primordial goddess with several faces and forms, and it's even more interesting because of Tiamatite Zuism that's an interesting form of zuism that's kinda rival but not enemy of Mardukite Zuism."
Tiamatism by Full Monteirism May 19, 2021

Philosophical Tiamatism 

Philosophical Tiamatism is a philosophical doctrine that uses Tiamatism as the basis of its philosophy, philosophical tiamatism is characterized by supporting extraphysical monism, neutral extraphysicalism, non-dualism, the law of polarity as the main foundation of existence, unity between the physical-extraphysical and natural-extranatural, pandivinism, panpsychism, bioequalism and the existence of life forms at an extraphysical level and that they interact with humans in one way or another. Philosophical Tiamatism also supports that the main goal of life and existence is always evolving spiritually until reach a high level of being or even reach godhood and in the end return to the world of origin one come from.
"Philosophical Tiamatism just extracts all philosophical teachings from Tiamatism and turn it into a philosophy, and that's nice to see there are people who still can work on those kind of philosophies and not all people deny and reject those philosophies."

Philosophical Tiamatism 

Philosophical Tiamatism is a philosophical doctrine that uses Tiamatism as the basis of its philosophy, philosophical tiamatism is characterized by supporting extraphysical monism, neutral extraphysicalism, non-dualism, the law of polarity as the main foundation of existence, unity between the physical-extraphysical, material-extramaterial and natural-extranatural, pandivinism, panpsychism, bioequalism and the existence of life forms at an extraphysical level and that they interact with humans in one way or another. Philosophical Tiamatism also supports that the main goal of life and existence is always evolving spiritually until reach a high level of being or even reach godhood and in the end return to the world of origin one come from.
"Philosophical Tiamatism just extracts all philosophical teachings from Tiamatism and turn it into a philosophy, and that's nice to see there are people who still can work on those kind of philosophies and not all people deny and reject those philosophies."
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Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
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Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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