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gerontocide

gerontocide is the alternative form of geronticide.

Meaning of geronticide

Noun

geronticide (plural geronticides)

  1. The killing or euthanasia of the elderly
    • Maxwell et al. (1982) studied geronticide practices in some ninety-five different societies.2000, Michael Brogden, Preeti Nijhar, Crime, Abuse and the Elderly, page 33

Forms of gerontocide

pluralgerontocides

Origin of gerontocide

From geronto- + -cide.

Questions about gerontocide

What is gerontocide the alternative form of?
Gerontocide is the alternative form of geronticide.

Words near gerontocide in the dictionary

  1. geronticides
  2. gerontine
  3. gerontism
  4. geronto-
  5. gerontocentric
  6. gerontocide
  7. gerontocides
  8. gerontocracies
  9. gerontocracy
  10. gerontocrat
  11. gerontocratic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gerontocide (page history and authors); geronticide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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