Phagoemia
English
Part of Speech: | IPA (RP & GenAm): /fəˈɡoʊ.iː.mi.ə/
Rhymes: -emia
“A condition marked by the hunger for blood.”
Definitions:
1. A fictional or hypothetical condition involving the act of consuming blood, literally or metaphorically. Commonly used in fantasy, gothic, or horror stories as a disease, curse, or unnatural craving.
2. (Culinary, rare/humorous) A taste for foods prepared with blood as a principal ingredient, such as blood sausage, blood soup, or traditional dishes in various cultures.
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Found in dark folklore, fantasy medical texts, or horror fiction. In lighter or culinary contexts, may be playfully used to describe an appetite for traditional blood-based foods.
Etymology:
From Greek phagein (“to eat”) + -emia (“condition of the blood”), coined as a metaphorical medicalism for blood-craving or parasitic afflictions, later humorously extended to gastronomy.
Example (literary):
“The villagers feared the old legend of phagoemia, a curse that drove its victims to thirst for the blood of others.”
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