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  • noun The condition of being a zombie.

Etymologies

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zombie +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • They find answers on a blog, where an earlier "tag" victim explains the rules by which this odd strain of zombiism is spread.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • It's a serious look at the mathematical epidemiology of zombiism, published in "Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The result is SHOOTING POOL, which deals with the idea of emotinal zombiism, but not the living dead, least not in the strictest meaning of the words.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Joe Lansdale 2010

  • The result is SHOOTING POOL, which deals with the idea of emotinal zombiism, but not the living dead, least not in the strictest meaning of the words.

    Joe Lansdale Joe Lansdale 2010

  • It's kind of queer, then, that Straub's equally sprawling novel - which incorporated into its thick page count vampirism, werewolfism, zombiism and of course spiritism - should be so cut down, condensed and neutered as a cinematic offering born on the 50th anniversary of the birth of the American horror film.

    The most dreadful thing Arbogast 2009

  • With their pasty skin and hollow eyes, they actually look a bit zombie-like, although George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 1968 was still a good six years away and associations of zombiism were still strictly Haitian.

    Lost souls in the sunset Arbogast 2009

  • From the religious -- "For Pete's Sake," about the Mother Church's connection to zombiism -- to the comic -- "Four out of Five," which explains the connection between oral hygiene and zombie outbreaks, Zombie Tales runs the gamut.

    Archive 2007-08-19 Rogers 2007

  • From the religious -- "For Pete's Sake," about the Mother Church's connection to zombiism -- to the comic -- "Four out of Five," which explains the connection between oral hygiene and zombie outbreaks, Zombie Tales runs the gamut.

    ZOMBIE TALES collected anthology Rogers 2007

  • The link from vampirism and zombiism and a few other -isms to a brain-influencing parasite is solid and incredibly believable, and his protagonist, the peep-hunter Cal, is wonderfully empathetic.

    peeps prestige jlundberg 2006

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