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antisuicide en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + suicide.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Opposing or preventing suicide.
    • An antisuicide pact, too, seems at first glance to be collaborative: the therapist conducts therapy under the terms of an agreement made with a patient[…] 1999, Jürgen Kind, Paul Foulkes, Suicidal Behaviour:
    • Although not definitively demonstrated by direct placebo-controlled data, there is mounting evidence from a variety of research methodologies supporting the antisuicide effect of lithium. 2007, Jair C. Soares, Allan H. Young, Bipolar Disorders: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications:
    • Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse. 1992, George Howe Colt, The Enigma of Suicide:

Translations (1)

pt antissuicídio (opposing or preventing suicide)