autosarcophagy

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ sarcophagy

Noun

autosarcophagy (uncountable)

  1. The eating of one's own flesh.

Synonyms
  1. Synonym of autocannibalism
    • 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).
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