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selficide en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From selfie + -cide.

Meanings

1. (countable, informal, uncountable) Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment.
   • Selficides were already in the news last weekend, when it was revealed that an Indian couple who fell to their death at Yosemite National Park had alcohol in their system. 2019 January 23, Paula Froelich, “Selficide: The Dangerous New Addiction”, in Newsweek:
   • Drowning, being hit by a vehicle[, and] suffering a fall [are] the most common causes of ‘selficide’. 2018 September 28, Jasper Hamill, “Scientists call for ‘no selfie’ zones to stop narcissists dying in ‘selficides’”, in Metro:
   • A recent study documented 259 deaths worldwide caused by people taking selfies – dubbed “selficides” by the researchers – between October 2011 and November 2017. 2018 November 3, Erin McCormick, Michael Safi, “'Is our life just worth a photo?': the tragic death of a couple in Yosemite”, in The Guardian:
   • (see title) 2020, Tasawar Hannan, “Facebook 'Selficide': Are They Modern-Day Tragic Attempts of Our Symbolic Capital?”, in European Journal of Sociology, volume 3, number 1:
   • According to an article published in Economic times named 'Global addiction: Selfie's facts and moments from around the world.' (economictimes) States that millennia‟s age 18-34, 82% of them are selfie takers (2018 fact), 259 selficide ie deaths caused while taking Selfie‟s (Bureau, 2019) reported by All India institute of medical sciences in the year 2011-2017, half of which were reported from India followed by Russia, United States and Pakistan. 2021 June, C. P. Rashmi, Ritu S. Sood, “Selfie Creating Dual Personalities: A Study of Selfie, Narcissism and Social Media”, in Journal of Content, Community & Communication, volume 13:
   • This situation is becoming increasingly common, even coining the new term selficide where people die in pursuit of extreme selfies, and is not something any crisis playbook of the past would anticipate 2020, Ronald D. Smith, Strategic Planning for Public Relations, page 198:

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Synonyms

killfie

Translations (2)

de Selfizid (death by selfie) · el σελφοκτονία (death by selfie)

selficide en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From self + -icide.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The metaphorical killing of the self.
   • Even Dostoevsky's supposedly Christlike character Prince Myshkin ends in a suicide, or more literally, "selficide," […] 1974, Maurice S. Friedman, The Hidden Human Image:
   • On one level, selficide is the failure to learn and grow from life's experiences. 2014, Ken Chapman, The Leader’s Code, page 17:
   • In a way, to upgrade Gil's (2009) arguments, a palpable 'selficide' is systematically produced by blocking 'truth' from itself and from the very own self, a self that can only exist 'in inner violence.' 2020, João M. Paraskeva, Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia:
   • This "rigor mortis" is selficide. The person literally "lives out" his life, with little difference in his experience when he is five, sixteen, forty, or seventy years old. Self never emerges. 1992, Thomas Patrick Malone, The Windows of Experience: Moving Beyond Recovery to Wholeness:

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