vampirism
noun
vampirism is a noun meaning “Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-M-P-I-R-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vampirism is vampirisms.
What does vampirism mean?
noun
- 1
Systemic lupus erythematosus (autoimmune disease)
- 2
The state of being a vampire.
- 3
Practices associated with vampires, in particular blood-drinking and the draining of a victim's life-force.
- 4
Extortion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vampirism
- vampirisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vampirism?
Vampirism appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Vampirism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | vampirismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vampirism come from?
From vampire + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).