vampiroid

English

Etymology

From vampire +‎ -oid, coined by paranormal investigator Stephen Kaplan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvæm.paɪ.əˌɹɔɪd/

Noun

vampiroid (plural vampiroids)

  1. A person who emulates the imagined lifestyle of a vampire, generally as part of a subculture or alternative lifestyle.
    Hyponyms: psivamp, sanguinarian
    • 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 […]
    • 2007, Anne Williams, Vivian Head, Sebastian C. Prooth, Amy Williams, Fiendish Killers‎[1], page 485:
      Despite the high proportion of relatively harmless vampiroids that exist, there are those that portray psychotic behaviour and will go to great extremes to carry out their beliefs.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:vampiroid.

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