postsuicide

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adjective

Occurring after suicide.

OriginEnglish suicide ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste →
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Meanings

adjectivepostsuicide (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring after suicide.

    Finally, visions of postsuicide lawsuits may lurk menacingly in the minds of those clinically responsible for the patient.

    1993, Richard P Kluft, Catherine G Fine, Clinical Perspectives on Multiple Personality Disorder
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    Indeed, the sport of mocking Hitler's postsuicide notoriety harks back to the postwar 1940s when a colleague of mine, Egon Jameson, published an essay...

    2001, Peter Wyden, The Hitler Virus

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishsuicide
  8. Englishpostsuicide

From post- + suicide.

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APA

postsuicide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postsuicide

MLA

“postsuicide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postsuicide. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postsuicide,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postsuicide.

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