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autoicon

autoicon noun: something that serves as an icon representing itself.

Noun

autoicon (plural autoicons)

  1. Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
    • […] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body […]2008, Robin Osborne, Jeremy Tanner, Art's Agency and Art History
    • Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'.2009, Keith Hayward, Shadd Maruna, Jayne Mooney, Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology

Forms of autoicon

pluralautoicons

Origin of autoicon

From auto- + icon.

Questions about autoicon

What does autoicon mean?
Autoicon means something that serves as an icon representing itself.
What part of speech is autoicon?
Autoicon is a noun.
What is the plural of autoicon?
The plural of autoicon is autoicons.

Words near autoicon in the dictionary

  1. autohyponym
  2. autohyponymic
  3. autohyponymous
  4. autohyponyms
  5. autohyponymy
  6. autoicon
  7. autoicons
  8. autoicous
  9. autoignite
  10. autoignited
  11. autoignites

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