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amokoscisia

amokoscisia noun: a sexual frenzy accompanied by a desire to mutilate women.

Noun

amokoscisia (uncountable)

  1. A sexual frenzy accompanied by a desire to mutilate women.
    • Other paraphilias are more blatantly transgressive and usually illegal: amokoscisia (desire to slash or mutilate females); anthropophagy (cannibalism); anthropophagolagnia (rape accompanied by cannibalism); […]2013, RJ Parker, Peter Vronsky, Michael Newton, Serial Killers True Crime Anthology 2014, volume I, page 29
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:amokoscisia.

Origin of amokoscisia

Pseudo-Grecism, from amok + -o- + Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + -ia. Schmidt (1984), who probably coined the term, gives the derivation as "amuck^([sic]) (in a state of frenzy) + schizo (slit)".

Questions about amokoscisia

What does amokoscisia mean?
Amokoscisia means a sexual frenzy accompanied by a desire to mutilate women.
What part of speech is amokoscisia?
Amokoscisia is a noun.

Words near amokoscisia in the dictionary

  1. amogus
  2. amoguses
  3. amok
  4. amoked
  5. amoking
  6. amokoscisia
  7. amoks
  8. amokura
  9. amokuras
  10. amol
  11. amolder

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