pseudocide
noun/ˈs(j)uːdəʊ̯ˌsaɪ̯d/UK/ˈs(j)uːdoʊ̯ˌsaɪ̯d/US
Etymology
Blend of pseudo- + suicide.
Definitions
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
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pseudocide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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