vampiroid
noun/ˈvæm.paɪ.əˌɹɔɪd/
Etymology From vampire + -oid, coined by paranormal investigator Stephen Kaplan.
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A person who emulates the imagined lifestyle of a vampire, generally as part of a subculture or alternative lifestyle.
- His estimate of the number of vampiroids — people who think they are vampires, or have similar characteristics — is less precise, but he reckons there are between 10,000 and 20,000 resident in North America […]1989, Brian J. Frost, The Monster with a Thousand Faces:
- A vampiroid is a human who embraces and identifies with what he or she assumes is a vampiristic lifestyle based largely on what is depicted in films and literature. Vampiroids become totally seduced by the vampire mythology […]2002, Antonio Mendoza, Teenage Rampage: The Worldwide Youth Crime Explosion, page 167:
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- Despite the high proportion of relatively harmless vampiroids that exist, there are those that portray psychotic behaviour and will go to great extremes to carry out their beliefs.2007, Anne Williams, Vivian Head, Sebastian C. Prooth, Amy Williams, Fiendish Killers, page 485: