anthropophagy

English

Etymology

From anthropo- +‎ -phagy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæn.θɹəˈpɒ.fə.d͡ʒi/

Noun

anthropophagy (usually uncountable, plural anthropophagies)

1. The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.
   • 2013, RJ Parker, Peter Vronsky, Michael Newton, Serial Killers True Crime Anthology 2014, volume I, page 29:

     Other paraphilias are more blatantly transgressive and usually illegal: amokoscisia (desire to slash or mutilate females); anthropophagy (cannibalism); anthropophagolagnia (rape accompanied by cannibalism); […]

Related terms

• anthropophagic
• anthropophagism, anthropophagist
• anthropophagous

Translations

the practice of eating human flesh

• Esperanto: antropofagio, hommanĝado, kanibalismo
• Finnish: ihmissyönti (fi), antropofagia, kannibalismi (fi)
• French: anthropophagie (fr) f
• Galician: antropofaxia (gl) f
• Indonesian: antropofagi (id)
• Italian: antropofagia (it) f, cannibalismo (it) m
• Japanese: カニバリズム (ja) (kanibarizumu), 食人 (ja) (shokujin)
• Malay: antropofagi
• Polish: antropofagia (pl) f, (literary) ludożerstwo (pl) n, kanibalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: antropofagia (pt) f, canibalismo m
• Slovak: antropofágia (sk) f
• Turkish: antropofaji, insan yamyamlığı