Noun
Belief in the existence of vampires.
The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
Fig.: The practice of extortion.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlthough the idea has now become commonplace, a scientific origin for vampirism or zombies was fairly original when written. Source: Internet
Dracula crumbles to dust, and Mina is freed from her curse of vampirism. Source: Internet
Silver & Ursini, p. 43. Its portrayal of vampirism as a disease of contagious demonic possession, with its undertones of sex, blood and death, struck a chord in Victorian Europe where tuberculosis and syphilis were common. Source: Internet
"Intelligent mix of historical and modern-day vampirism, with the ninth return of Saberhagen's revisionist, sharing-and-caring Prince Vlad Dracula (Seance for a Vampire, 1994, etc), the most honorable of the undead. Source: Internet
"The genius of novelist Matt Haig's book is that the vampirism takes a back seat--a wet, bloody back seat, but still--to the blackly comic family turmoil that's at the center of the story. Source: Internet
His vampirism seems to be a fit that comes on him when his vital energy begins to run low; he is a regular, normally functioning person between feedings. Source: Internet