mermaidism

The condition of being a mermaid.

There is an understanding that differences of culture, faith, and traditions can create barriers to a successful relationship. And since Prince Eric cannot 'convert' to mermaidism, she converts.

With Tami’s growing success in professional mermaidism and being able to live on a houseboat on the water, she feels right at home and completely in her element.

A love of or obsession with mermaid lore and paraphernalia.

Really it was time to put an end to lunch picnics and mermaidism.

[…] of "mermaidism" in other women, and even selects her clothing and accessories to enhance her connection to the tailed beings.

The belief in mermaids as real creatures.

The Miscellany of Natural History would have been a more appropriate title,—for what romance can be found in the absurdities of mermaidism or in the “self-immured,” to wit, “Mr. Bartlett's toad, Mr. Bree's toad, Mr. Smith's toad, Mr. Clark's toad," and the toads of other respectable gentlemen.

Mermaidism, which lifted up its voice in the correspondence columns of the NATION a few weeks ago, has no sound basis in history.

Synonym of sirenomelia.

There is either elephantiasis or dropsy of the left leg, and some disease or accident has resulted in a sort of mermaidism of the right.

It is also of interest that there are 12 cases with radial aplasia and four cases with esophageal atresia among some 200 case reports of sirenomelia, or mermaidism, a severe anomaly of postaxial mesoderm which always includes imperforate anus and lower vertebral defects.

The condition of being partly one thing and partly another; hybridism.

But, furthermore, the true Revival of pure Religion, is meeting at this day a still more fearful obstacle, in the system of go-betweenity or theological mermaidism, which has arisen out of the ashes of old defunct infidelity, and is boasting its able champions.

As for the competing attractions of the Church, there was certainly a rise in what might be called ecclesiastical mermaidism at this period — that is , an increased interest in the superficial and non-communicative aspects of religious ceremonial, in ritual and vestments for their own sake, in Church art not as a living thing internally determined but as a self-conscious copy of the living art of another period: Hudson River Gothic, in a word.