self-mutilation

noun

self-harm

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Meanings

nounself-mutilation (uncountable)
  1. uncountableself-harm

    In this way Stalinism really produced the 'new Soviet man': an ideological schizophrenic, a liar who believed what he was saying, a man capable of incessant, voluntary acts of intellectual self-mutilation.

    1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 97

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
self-harmsharmsilly slicing

Origin

From self- + mutilation.

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Translations

Spanish automutilación
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APA

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

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Chicago

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