"zombic" meaning in All languages combined

See zombic on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more zombic [comparative], most zombic [superlative]
Etymology: zombie + -ic Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|zombie|ic}} zombie + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj}} zombic (comparative more zombic, superlative most zombic)
  1. Relating to zombies.
    Sense id: en-zombic-en-adj-pSfzASrg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ic, Zombies Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ic: 100 0 Disambiguation of Zombies: 86 14
  2. Resembling a zombie.
    Sense id: en-zombic-en-adj-uKYlinYe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: zombically

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          "ref": "1991, C. S. Friedman, The Madness Season, New York: Daw",
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          "text": "[…]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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