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autosarcophagy

autosarcophagy noun: the eating of one's own flesh.

Noun

autosarcophagy (uncountable)

  1. The eating of one's own flesh.
    • The concept's autosarcophagy, its autoassimilation, is ultimately the birth of the subject – the suffering idea brings forth the subject (this is at least how I come to comprehend parts of the Lost and the Lonely).2015, Charles William Johns, Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays
    Synonyms:
    autocannibalism

Synonyms of autosarcophagy

Origin of autosarcophagy

From auto- + sarcophagy.

Questions about autosarcophagy

What does autosarcophagy mean?
Autosarcophagy means the eating of one's own flesh.
What part of speech is autosarcophagy?
Autosarcophagy is a noun.

Words near autosarcophagy in the dictionary

  1. autosample
  2. autosampled
  3. autosampler
  4. autosamplers
  5. autosampling
  6. autosarcophagy
  7. autosave
  8. autosaved
  9. autosaves
  10. autosaving
  11. autoscale

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