antisuicide

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adjective

Opposing or preventing suicide.

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Meanings

adjectiveantisuicide (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOpposing or preventing suicide.

    Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse.

    1992, George Howe Colt, The Enigma of Suicide
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    An antisuicide pact, too, seems at first glance to be collaborative: the therapist conducts therapy under the terms of an agreement made with a patient[…]

    1999, Jürgen Kind, Paul Foulkes, Suicidal Behaviour

    Although not definitively demonstrated by direct placebo-controlled data, there is mounting evidence from a variety of research methodologies supporting the antisuicide effect of lithium.

    2007, Jair C. Soares, Allan H. Young, Bipolar Disorders: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications

Origin

From anti- + suicide.

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Translations

Portuguese antissuicídio
  • antissuicídioopposing or preventing suicide
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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