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subsuicidal

adj

Etymology

From sub- + suicidal.

Definitions

  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.
    • 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, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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