cannibalism

cannibalism

English

Etymology

cannibal +‎ -ism

Pronunciation

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Noun

cannibalism (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisms)

1. The act of eating another of one's own species.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 31:

     Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.

2. (figurative) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
3. In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".

Hyponyms

• autocannibalism
• endocannibalism
• exocannibalism
• hypercannibalism
• sexual cannibalism

 

Related terms

• anticannibalism
• cannibal
• cannibalistic
• galactic cannibalism

 

Translations

act of eating another of one's own species

Armenian: մարդակերություն (hy) (mardakerutʿyun) (of humans) Asturian: antropofaxa f, canibalismu m Catalan: antropofàgia f, canibalisme m Chinese: Mandarin: 同類相食／同类相食 (zh) (tónglèi xiāngshí), (of humans) 食人 (zh) (shírén) Czech: kanibalismus (cs) m Danish: kannibalisme (da) c Dutch: kannibalisme (nl) n Esperanto: kanibalismo, samspecimanĝado Faroese: mannaát n Finnish: kannibalismi (fi) French: cannibalisme (fr) m Galician: antropofaxia (gl) f, canibalismo (gl) m German: Kannibalismus (de) m Greek: κανιβαλισμός (el) m (kanivalismós), ανθρωποφαγία (el) f (anthropofagía) Ancient: ἀνθρωποφαγία (anthrōpophagía), ἀλληλοφαγία (allēlophagía) Indonesian: kanibalisme (id) Italian: cannibalismo (it) m Japanese: カニバリズム (kanibarizumu), 共食い (tomogui), (of humans) 人食い (hitokui) Kazakh: (of humans) адам жегіштік (adam jegıştık) Malay: kanibalisme (ms) Manx: canniblaght f Norwegian: Bokmål: kannibalisme (no) m Nynorsk: kannibalisme m Occitan: antropofagia (oc) f, canibalisme m Persian: همنوع‌خواری‎ (hamnou'-xâri), (of humans) آدم‌خواری‎ (âdam-xâri) Polish: antropofagia (pl) f, (literary) ludożerstwo (pl) n, kanibalizm (pl) m Portuguese: antropofagia (pt) f, canibalismo m Romanian: canibalism (ro) n Russian: каннибали́зм (ru) m (kannibalízm), (of humans) людое́дство (ru) n (ljudojédstvo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: канибалѝзам m, људо̀жде̄рство n Roman: kanibalìzam (sh) m, ljudòždērstvo (sh) n Slovak: ľudožrútstvo n, ľudojedstvo n, kanibalizmus m Spanish: antropofagia (es) f, canibalismo (es) m Swedish: kannibalism (sv) c Telugu: స్వజాతి భక్షణ (svajāti bhakṣaṇa), నరమాంస భక్షణ (naramāṁsa bhakṣaṇa) Turkish: yamyamlık (tr) Ukrainian: канібалі́зм m (kanibalízm), людоже́рство n (ljudožérstvo), людої́дство n (ljudojídstvo) Vietnamese: ăn thịt đồng loại

See also

• kuru
• mad cow disease
• prion
• anthropophagy

References

• cannibalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia