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vampirism

vampirism noun: systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease).

Noun

vampirism (usually uncountable, plural vampirisms)

  1. (usually) Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)
  2. (usually) The state of being a vampire.
  3. (usually) Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim's life-force.
  4. (figuratively, usually) Extortion.
    • Treason, delusion, vampyrism, scoundrelism, from Dan to Beersheba!1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Tuileries), page 108

vampirism meaning in Tamil and Urdu

vampirism in Tamil

குருதிப்பேய்க் கோட்பாடு

vampirism in Urdu

خون آشامی, خوں خواری

Forms of vampirism

pluralvampirisms
alternative form (archaic)vampyrism

Origin of vampirism

From vampire + -ism.

Words formed from vampirism

Questions about vampirism

What does vampirism mean?
Vampirism means systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease).
What is vampirism in Tamil?
Vampirism in Tamil is குருதிப்பேய்க் கோட்பாடு. See Vampirism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vampirism?
Vampirism is a noun.
What is the plural of vampirism?
The plural of vampirism is vampirisms.

Words near vampirism in the dictionary

  1. vampirisations
  2. vampirise
  3. vampirised
  4. vampirish
  5. vampirising
  6. vampirism
  7. vampirisms
  8. vampirist
  9. vampiristic
  10. vampiristically
  11. vampirists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vampirism (page history and authors); vampirism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vampirism (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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