Meanings
- uncommonThe destruction of the (or a) world.
Necroplanetology is the study of mundicide and everything after. Planets (and objects of their ilk) can be destroyed in collisions, by stellar vaporization, or tidal forces.
2024 January 17, Nick Black, Midnight's Simulacra, Gold & Appel Publishing, →ISBN, page 3972 more examples
But the task of actually destroying the planet, or 'mundicide' as UK Cambridge University mathematics student Sam Hughes calls it in his amusing website (http : // ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html) is unimaginably difficult. Nevertheless we all like a challenge,[…]
2005, Astronomy Now, page 23There are echoes here of Mitchell's concept of "mundicide." See Audra Mitchell, “Only Human? A Worldly Approach to Security,” Security Dialogue 45, no. 1 (2014): 5–21. 35.
2021 December 28, Paul Lushenko, Srinjoy Bose, William Maley, Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society, Routledge, →ISBN
Origin
From Latin mundus (“world”) + -cide.
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