spookism
nounEtymology From spook + -ism.
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Informal Spooky or ghostly things; spookery.
- Can't you omit some spookism, which is simply "rot"? I feel like writing to your "spiritual" friends to spare you.1908, The Humanitarian Review, volume 7, page 441:
- [I]mages and symbols of the cat were dedicated to the moon, the moon being universally regarded as the quintessence of everything supernatural, the very cockpit, in fact, of mystery and spookism.2015, Elliott O'Donnell, Animal Ghosts:
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- This first sound version of The Bat is half-creaky, half-canny spookism.2019, Donald C. Willis, Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1930s: