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subsuicidal

subsuicidal adjective: self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour.

Adjective

subsuicidal (not comparable)

  1. self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour
    • The most widely used terms may be arrayed along a continuum: committed suicide, attempted suicide, suicidal gestures, suicidal threats, suicidal ideation, and subsuicidal phenomena.1971, Bulletin of Suicidology, number 8, page 12
    • Menninger (1938) also describes forms of subsuicidal phenomena: (1) chronic suicide includes asceticism, martyrdom, addiction, invalidism, and psychosis; (2) focal suicide involves acts of self-mutilation, malingering, polysurgery, […]1986, William W. Meissner, Psychotherapy and the paranoid process, page 302

Origin of subsuicidal

From sub- + suicidal.

Questions about subsuicidal

What does subsuicidal mean?
Subsuicidal means self-destructive in a way that approaches suicidal behaviour.
What part of speech is subsuicidal?
Subsuicidal is an adjective.

Words near subsuicidal in the dictionary

  1. subsubtenants
  2. subsubtype
  3. subsubtypes
  4. subsubulate
  5. subsucculent
  6. subsuicidal
  7. subsulcate
  8. subsulculate
  9. subsulfate
  10. subsulfates
  11. subsulfid

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