pseudocide

noun
/ˈs(j)uːdəʊ̯ˌsaɪ̯d/UK/ˈs(j)uːdoʊ̯ˌsaɪ̯d/US

Etymology

Blend of pseudo- + suicide.

Definitions

  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.
    • Some suspect Lord Lucan of pseudocide after he vanished in 1974 on the night of a murder in the Lucan household. His family, though, are convinced the peer killed himself for real.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for pseudocide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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