suicidality

English

Etymology

From suicidal +‎ -ity.

Noun

suicidality (countable and uncountable, plural suicidalities)

1. (uncountable) The tendency of a person to commit suicide.
   • 2009, Ellen T. Kahn-Greene, Chronic vs. acute suicidal risk, page 19:

     In contrast, for individuals with an interpsychic focus, suicidality is often related to interpersonal struggles […]

2. (countable) A fatality that is an instance of suicide.
   • 2019 October, Wan-jun Guo, Yu-jie Tao, Xiao-jing Li, Xia Lin, Ya-jing Meng, Xia Yang, et al., “Internet addiction severity and risk for psychopathology, serious mental illness, and suicidalities: a cross-sectional study”, in The Lancet‎^[1], volume 394:

     The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except for suicidalities) for students with moderate and severe internet addiction.

Translations

tendency to commit suicide

• Finnish: itsetuhoisuus (fi)
• French: suicidalité (fr) f
• German: Suizidalität (de) f, Selbstmordneigung f, Selbstmordtendenz (de) f