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suicidality

suicidality noun: the tendency of a person to commit suicide.

Noun

suicidality (countable and uncountable, plural suicidalities)

  1. (uncountable) The tendency of a person to commit suicide.
    • In contrast, for individuals with an interpsychic focus, suicidality is often related to interpersonal struggles[…]2009, Ellen T. Kahn-Greene, Chronic vs. acute suicidal risk, page 19
  2. (countable) A fatality that is an instance of suicide.
    • The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except...2019 October, Wan-jun Guo, Yu-jie Tao, Xiao-jing Li, Xia Lin, Ya-jing Meng, Xia Yang, et al., “Internet addiction severity and risk for psychopathology, serious mental illness, and suicidalities: a...

Forms of suicidality

pluralsuicidalities

Origin of suicidality

From suicidal + -ity.

Words formed from suicidality

Questions about suicidality

What does suicidality mean?
Suicidality means the tendency of a person to commit suicide.
What part of speech is suicidality?
Suicidality is a noun.
What is the plural of suicidality?
The plural of suicidality is suicidalities.

Words near suicidality in the dictionary

  1. suicidal ideation
  2. suicidal ideations
  3. suicidalism
  4. suicidalist
  5. suicidalities
  6. suicidality
  7. suicidally
  8. suicidalness
  9. suicidals
  10. suicide
  11. suicide ant

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