memorycide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "And we can but fear the consequence of this memorycide on the future of Lebanon."
- "They foreshadowed a total war against a population threatened with "memorycide," to use Mirko Grmek's terminology, as well as "Urbicide," a fundamental dimension of this memorycide, as Bogdan Bogdanovic put it."
- "I remembered the first peace activists who came with their ideas of nonviolent actions against the war already in 1991; I could evoke many images of war atrocities, tortures and moments of memorycide but also the miraculous situations of human support and actions across borders; I couldn't foget my own restlessness facing women victims of rape, their silence, their shame and their dignity."
- "Beyond that, the assumed project of memorycide offers a negative foil for the duty to remember and for the dedication of museums, memorials, and monuments."
Etymology
From memory + -cide.