cannibalism

Noun

Meaning

The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

carnivore eater cannibal gluttony dining hunger grazing cruelty ingestion brutality ferocity savagery bestiality barbarity inhumanity
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Antonyms

charity mercy goodness kindness benevolence clemency
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Hypernyms

practice pattern

Hyponyms

anthropophagy

Related terms

cannibal cannibalistic galactic cannibalism anticannibalism

Phrases with the word

chinese cannibalism given to cannibalism

Examples

Slander is worse than cannibalism. John Chrysostom

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. Abbie Hoffman

If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday. H. L. Mencken

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another. Ayn Rand

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism. Dennis Weaver

[T]he very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. Karl Marx

Close letter words and terms

cannibalisation cannibalise cannibalish cannibalistic cannibalistic brother cannibalistic consumption