different between vampirish vs vampirism

English

Etymology

From vampire +? -ish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?vamp?????/

Adjective

vampirish (comparative more vampirish, superlative most vampirish)

1. Pertaining to a vampire, characteristic of a vampire; photophobic, parasitic etc. [from 19th c.]
   • 1994, Edward St Aubyn, Bad News, Picador 2006, p. 227:

     In London, when the pasty light of dawn had stained the ceiling above the curtain pole, he would listen with vampirish panic to the squealing and rumbling of distant juggernauts, and then to the nearby whining of a milkcart, and eventually to the slamming doors of cars bearing children to school, or real men to work in factories and banks.

English

Alternative forms

• vampyrism (archaic)

Etymology

vampire +? -ism

Noun

vampirism (usually uncountable, plural vampirisms)

1. (medicine) Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)
2. (mythology) the state of being a vampire
3. practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim's life-force.
4. (figuratively) extortion

   • Treason, delusion, vampirism, scoundrelism, from Dan to Beersheba!

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