autoicon
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
Example Sentences
- "[…] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body […]"
- "Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'."