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LYCANTHROPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lycanthropy mean?
• LYCANTHROPY (noun)
The noun LYCANTHROPY has 1 sense:
1. (folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf
Familiarity information: LYCANTHROPY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(folklore) the magical ability of a person to assume the characteristics of a wolf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("lycanthropy" is a kind of...):
magical ability; magical power (an ability to perform magic)
Domain category:
folklore (the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture)
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