vampiroid
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
vampire + -oid, coined by Stephen Kaplan (paranormal investigator).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
vampiroid (plural vampiroids)
- A person who emulates what they consider to be a vampire's lifestyle.
- 1989, Brian J. Frost, The Monster with a Thousand Faces:
- His estimate of the number of vampiroids — people who think they are vampires, or have similar characteristics — is less precise, but he reckons there are between 10,000 and 20,000 resident in North America […]
- 2002, Antonio Mendoza, Teenage Rampage: The Worldwide Youth Crime Explosion, page 167:
- A vampiroid is a human who embraces and identifies with what he or she assumes is a vampiristic lifestyle based largely on what is depicted in films and literature. Vampiroids become totally seduced by the vampire mythology […]