Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

self-death

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.02 in modern English

Syllables: self--death
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To commit suicide.

Example Sentences

"Psychiatry may have a name for this form of cessation, but it isn't hard to see something of that notion in the self-deaths of creative artists who have either sought to push the very edges of corporeal existence or who have died because they couldn't find a way of truly validating their talents and their livingness."

Etymology

From self- + death.

Usage

Inflected Forms

self-deaths (plural) selfdeath (alternative) self-deaths (present, singular) self-deathing (participle, present) self-deathed (participle, past) self-deathed (past)

Questions

What does self-death mean?: Suicide.
Where does self-death come from?: From self- + death.

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