autodefenestration

/ˌɑː.toʊˌdiː.fɛ.nəˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Uncountable

"She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill."
"Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think."
"...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.'"

From auto- + defenestration.

defenestrate autodefenestrate

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The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɑː.toʊˌdiː.fɛ.nəˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/.

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Where does autodefenestration come from?

From auto- + defenestration.

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