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psivamp

noun

Etymology

From psi (“a form of psychic energy”) + vamp (“a vampire”).

  1. derived from avantpied
  2. derived from vampe
  3. inherited from vaumpe
  4. compounded as psivamp — “psi + vamp”

Definitions

  1. A person who claims to consume the psychic energy of others as part of the vampiroid…

    A person who claims to consume the psychic energy of others as part of the vampiroid subculture.

    • This particular article, published to my site kheperu.org in 2002, was penned in response to a letter received from a psivamp who had stirred up trouble for himself by outing his nature to his Wiccan High Priestess.
    • Most psivamps note a different flavor or feel to Otherkin, some even jokingly calling Otherkin 'energetic candy'.
    • Some psivamps enter into relationships with donors in the same way that sanguinarian vampires do, while others consciously train themselves away from human energy altogether, either for convenience or as a result of personal ethics.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for psivamp. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA