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Subsist vs Psivamp - What's the difference?

subsist | psivamp |

As a verb subsist

is to survive on a minimum of resources.

As a noun psivamp is

a supposed form of vampire that subsists on the psychic energy of others.

subsist

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To survive on a minimum of resources.
  • * Atterbury
    • to subsist on other men's charity
  • (mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
  • To continue; to retain a certain state.
  • * Milton
    • Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.

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    Related terms

    * subsistence * subsistent

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    psivamp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A supposed form of vampire that subsists on the psychic energy of others.
  • * 2005 , Michelle Belanger (ed.), Sacred Hunger (page 46)
    • 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.
  • * 2006 , Sebastiaan van Houten, The Vampyre Almanac 2006 (page 36)
    • Most psivamps note a different flavor or feel to Otherkin, some even jokingly calling Otherkin 'energetic candy'.