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pseudocides

pseudocides is the plural of pseudocide.

Meaning of pseudocide

Noun

pseudocide (countable and uncountable, plural pseudocides)

  1. A death, or suicide attempt, that is faked.
    • Secondly, the contention that suicide attempts are self-therapy is clarified by introducing the concept pseudocide, with no implication that pseudocides eventually lead to suicides.1972 March, Robert L. Hamblin, R. Brooke Jacobsen, “Suicide and Pseudocide: A Reanalysis of Maris’s Data”, in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, volume 13, number 1, page 99

Questions about pseudocides

What is pseudocides the plural of?
Pseudocides is the plural of pseudocide.

Words near pseudocides in the dictionary

  1. pseudochyle
  2. pseudochylothoraces
  3. pseudochylothorax
  4. pseudocidal
  5. pseudocide
  6. pseudocides
  7. pseudocilia
  8. pseudocilium
  9. pseudocircle
  10. pseudocircles
  11. pseudocirrhosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pseudocides (page history and authors); pseudocide (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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