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epistemicide

epistemicide noun: the destruction of (a targeted people or group's) knowledge.

Noun

epistemicide (countable and uncountable, plural epistemicides)

  1. The destruction of (a targeted people or group's) knowledge.

Forms of epistemicide

pluralepistemicides

Origin of epistemicide

From Portuguese epistemicídio, coined by Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Equivalent to episteme/epistemic + -(i)cide.

Questions about epistemicide

What does epistemicide mean?
Epistemicide means the destruction of (a targeted people or group's) knowledge.
What part of speech is epistemicide?
Epistemicide is a noun.
What is the plural of epistemicide?
The plural of epistemicide is epistemicides.

Words near epistemicide in the dictionary

  1. epistemic markers
  2. epistemic rationality
  3. epistemic regime
  4. epistemic regimes
  5. epistemically
  6. epistemicide
  7. epistemicides
  8. epistemicism
  9. epistemicist
  10. epistemicists
  11. epistemicities

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