cannibalism

CEFRC1

/ˈkanɪbəlɪz(ə)m/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
The practice of eating members of one's own species.
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noun
Extra detail
An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.

Examples

Eating animals is not that different from anthropophagy or cannibalism.
First the immigrants, then you. Our solidarity - the answer to social cannibalism.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
The act of eating another of one's own species.

In context

First the immigrants, then you. Our solidarity is the answer to social cannibalism.
Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.

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Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 31
Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial. […] Considered globally, cannibalism should be less a moral issue than one of custom. I like Marmite, but then I have been raised on the stuff.
2000 September 7, Henry Gee, “Eating people - is it bad taste?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 May 2014
HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . . However, I've done quite a bit of research on the history and anthropology of cannibalism and read enough accounts to have come up with a fairly good approximation”
2022 August 23, Deborah L. Nichols, Patricia L. Crown, “9 Devouring Ourselves George J Armelagos”, in Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 218

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From cannibal + -ism.