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spookism

noun

Etymology

From spook + -ism.

  1. derived from spooc — “spook, ghost”
  2. borrowed from spook — “ghost”
  3. suffixed as spookism — “spook + ism”

Definitions

  1. Spooky or ghostly things

    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.
    • [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.
    • This first sound version of The Bat is half-creaky, half-canny spookism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spookism. 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