“pseudocide”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pseudocide

释义

pseudocide|ˈsjuːdəʊsaɪd|
Also with hyphen.
[f. pseudo- + suicide n.¹ and n.²]
a. A pretended attempt at suicide, undertaken with the intention of failure.
b. One who makes such an attempt. Hence ˈpseudocidal a.
1959Lennard-Jones & Asher in Lancet 30 May 1138 (heading) Why do they do it? A study of pseudocide.Ibid. 1140/1 People are described who deliberately harm themselves or take an overdose of tablets without wishing to die. We have termed these actions ‘pseudocide’.1970Hospital Tribune 23 Mar. 22/1 Another characteristic of the pseudocidal persons was found to be ‘their understandable propensity to leave suicide notes’.Ibid. 22/2 The typical pseudocide is remarkably different from the usual picture associated with actual suicidal persons.1976New Society 22 Jan. 147/1 The reason this attempt is called ‘pseudo-cide’ is that it is invariably a gesture and is not meant to succeed—witness the fall in the number of attempts during the junior doctors' strike, when relief was not necessarily at hand.

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