autosarcophagy

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

auto- +‎ sarcophagy

Noun[edit]

autosarcophagy (uncountable)

  1. The eating of one's own flesh.

Synonyms[edit]

  1. Synonym of autocannibalism

Related terms[edit]

    • 2015, Charles William Johns, Incompatible Ballerina and Other Essays:
      The concept's autosarcophagy, its autoassimilation, is ultimately the birth of the subject – the suffering idea brings forth the subject (this is at least how I come to comprehend parts of the Lost and the Lonely).