amokoscisia

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noun

A sexual frenzy accompanied by a desire to mutilate women.

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Meanings

nounamokoscisia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA sexual frenzy accompanied by a desire to mutilate women.

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    Other paraphilias are more blatantly transgressive and usually illegal: amokoscisia (desire to slash or mutilate females); anthropophagy (cannibalism); anthropophagolagnia (rape accompanied by cannibalism); […]

    2013, RJ Parker, Peter Vronsky, Michael Newton, Serial Killers True Crime Anthology 2014, volume I, page 29

Origin

Pseudo-Grecism, from amok + -o- + Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + -ia. Schmidt (1984), who probably coined the term, gives the derivation as "amuck^([sic]) (in a state of frenzy) + schizo (slit)".

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APA

amokoscisia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amokoscisia

MLA

“amokoscisia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amokoscisia. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “amokoscisia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amokoscisia.

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