Zombic vs Zombie - What's the difference?
zombic | zombie | Derived terms |
relating to zombies
* {{quote-book
, year = 1991
, title = The Madness Season
, first = C. S.
, last = Friedman
, authorlink = Celia S. Friedman
, publisher = Daw
, locatios = New York
, isbn = 978-1101174173
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=eB1Rlfr0ea8C&pg=PT195&dq=zombic
, passage = For a time I wasn't sure of their purpose—neither, it seemed, were they—and I dreaded the possible need for another zombic performance.
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 1999-11-28
, chapter = The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition?
, first = Daniel
, last = Dennett
, authorlink = Daniel Dennett
, published_date = 2005
, publisher = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, location = Cambridge, London
, isbn = 978-0262042253
, lccn = 2004048681
, oclc = 474825500
, id =
, page = 14
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=UAW5IlG7i00C&pg=PA14&dq=zombic
, title = Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
, passage = there has been a gradual process of distillation, leaving just about all the reactionaries, for all their disagreements among themselves, united in the conviction that there is a real difference between a conscious person and a perfect zombie''–let's call that intuition the ''Zombic Hunch''–leading them to the thesis of ''Zombism'': that ''the fundamental flaw in any mechanistic theory of consciousness is that it cannot account for this important difference .
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* {{quote-book
, date = 2010-11-09
, title = Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe
, first = Martin
, last = Bojowald
, authorlink = Martin Bojowald
, publisher = Knopf
, isbn = 978-0307594259
, lccn = 2010015937
, id =
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jhIMOuwyZtAC&pg=PT56&dq=zombic
, passage = The atoms are in a superposition of both possibilities, and the poor cat, too, is hanging on in a zombic combination of life and death.
}}
resembling a zombie
* {{quote-book
, year = 1984
, title = The Void Captain's Tale
, first = Norman
, last = Spinrad
, authorlink = Norman Spinrad
, page = 111
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=EO_XVi_fnCUC&pg=PA111&dq=zombic
, passage = As fortune and custom's use would have it, few were the witnesses to my zombic march, and none to see this gaunt-eyed ghost slip inside his Pilot's cabin, though not through any worldly care of mine.
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2007-11-06
, title = Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
, first = Adam
, last = Gopnik
, authorlink = Adam Gopnik
, publisher = Random House
, isbn = 9781400075751
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_kCC8IZ77p0C&pg=PT296&dq=zombic
, passage = She explained to me instantly that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even “zombic ” ones that did not reciprocate affection, and that a pair of Japanese psychologists, Hatano and Inagaki, had done studies of how children develop intuitive theories of biology by having pets.
}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2008-05-01
, title = A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace It's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to Happen
, first = Gary
, last = Buslik
, authorlink = Gary Buslik
, publisher = Travelers' Tales
, location = Palo Alto
, isbn = 9781932361582
, lccn = 2008003087
, id =
, page = 2
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=DyAN0OjOpwIC&pg=PA2&dq=zombic
, passage = I've always thought it more sensible than the zombic passivity we associate with Caucasian moviegoing—not unlike the difference between a staid Presbyterian church service and a rip-roaring Baptist get-down.
}}
A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
(voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
(figuratively) An apathetic person.
(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
(computing) A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
* 1976 , CX:ii, pages
(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.The Canadian Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.
* 1944 , "
(philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
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Zombic is a derived term of zombie.
As a adjective zombic
is relating to zombies.As a noun zombie is
a snake god or fetish in religions of west africa and elsewhere.zombic
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* zombicallyzombie
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(wikipedia zombie)Noun
(zombies)- I shot a zombie'''. He was a '''zombie , Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!
- After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie .
EE Times , "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
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- The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie' with him. Those ' zombies are wicked.
- I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?