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spookism en · NOUN

Etymology

From spook + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) Spooky or ghostly things; spookery.
    • This first sound version of The Bat is half-creaky, half-canny spookism. 2019, Donald C. Willis, Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1930s:
    • [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:
    • 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: