English Explanatory Dictionary

mermaidism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The condition of being a mermaid.
  2. A love of or obsession with mermaid lore and paraphernalia.
  3. The belief in mermaids as real creatures.
  4. Synonym of sirenomelia.
  5. The condition of being partly one thing and partly another; hybridism.

Word forms

mermaidism

Etymology

From mermaid + -ism.

Synonyms

sirenomelia
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