Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antisuicide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-sui-cide
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Opposing or preventing suicide.

Example Sentences

"Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse."
"An antisuicide pact, too, seems at first glance to be collaborative: the therapist conducts therapy under the terms of an agreement made with a patient[…]"
"Although not definitively demonstrated by direct placebo-controlled data, there is mounting evidence from a variety of research methodologies supporting the antisuicide effect of lithium."

Etymology

From anti- + suicide.

Questions

What does antisuicide mean?: Opposing or preventing suicide.
Where does antisuicide come from?: From anti- + suicide.

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