zombic

Adjective

zombic (comparative more zombic, superlative most zombic)

1. Relating to zombies.
   • For a time I wasn't sure of their purpose—neither, it seemed, were they—and I dreaded the possible need for another zombic performance.1991, C. S. Friedman, The Madness Season, New York: Daw, →ISBN
   • […]there has been a gradual process of distillation, leaving just about all the reactionaries, for all their disagreements among themselves, united in the conviction that there is a real difference between a conscious person and a perfect zombie–let's call that intuition the Zombic Hunch–leading...1999 November 28, Daniel Dennett, “The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?”, in Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness, Cambridge, London: Massachusetts Institute...
2. Resembling a zombie.
   • As fortune and custom's use would have it, few were the witnesses to my zombic march, and none to see this gaunt-eyed ghost slip inside his Pilot's cabin, though not through any worldly care of mine.1984, Norman Spinrad, The Void Captain's Tale, page 111
   • She explained to me instantly that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even “zombic” ones that did not reciprocate affection, and that a pair of Japanese psychologists, Hatano and Inagaki, had done studies of how children develop intuitive theories of biology by...2007 November 6, Adam Gopnik, Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York, Random House, →ISBN