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autoinfanticide

autoinfanticide noun: the act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.

Noun

autoinfanticide (uncountable)

  1. The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.
    • For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time
    • The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212

Origin of autoinfanticide

From auto- + infanticide.

Questions about autoinfanticide

What does autoinfanticide mean?
Autoinfanticide means the act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.
What part of speech is autoinfanticide?
Autoinfanticide is a noun.

Words near autoinfanticide in the dictionary

  1. autoinduces
  2. autoinducible
  3. autoinducing
  4. autoinduction
  5. autoinductive
  6. autoinfanticide
  7. autoinfect
  8. autoinfected
  9. autoinfecting
  10. autoinfection
  11. autoinfections

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