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.