Dictionary

suicidality en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English suicide English -al English suicidal Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English suicidality From suicidal + -ity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The tendency of a person to commit suicide.
   • In contrast, for individuals with an interpsychic focus, suicidality is often related to interpersonal struggles[…] 2009, Ellen T. Kahn-Greene, Chronic vs. acute suicidal risk, page 19:
2. (countable) A fatality that is an instance of suicide.
   • 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. 2019 October 14, 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^(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32424-9/fulltext), volume 394:

Forms

Deriveds

parasuicidality

Translations (5)

de Suizidalität (tendency to commit suicide) · de Selbstmordtendenz (tendency to commit suicide) · fr suicidalité (tendency to commit suicide) · de Selbstmordneigung (tendency to commit suicide) · fi itsetuhoisuus (tendency to commit suicide)