autoinfanticide

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noun

The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.

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Meanings

nounautoinfanticide (uncountable)
  1. uncountableliteratureThe act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.

    The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past

    2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212
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    For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.

    2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time

Origin

From auto- + infanticide.

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APA

autoinfanticide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoinfanticide

MLA

“autoinfanticide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoinfanticide. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autoinfanticide,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoinfanticide.

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