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nounautosarcophagy (uncountable)
- uncountableThe eating of one's own flesh.
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).
2015, Charles William Johns, Incompatible Ballerina and Other EssaysSynonyms: autocannibalism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe eating of one's own flesh.
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autosarcophagy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autosarcophagy
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