autoinfanticide

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English

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Etymology

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From auto- +‎ infanticide.

Noun

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autoinfanticide (uncountable)

  1. (science fiction) The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.
    • 2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time:
      For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.
    • 2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212:
      The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past

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