Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

self-mutilation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: self---mu-ti-la-tion
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In this way Stalinism really produced the 'new Soviet man': an ideological schizophrenic, a liar who believed what he was saying, a man capable of incessant, voluntary acts of intellectual self-mutilation."

Etymology

From self- + mutilation.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does self-mutilation mean?: self-harm
Where does self-mutilation come from?: From self- + mutilation.

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