self-annihilation

Noun

Meaning

Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

suicide self-destruction kamikaze self-destructive hara-kiri self-destruct self-sacrifice seppuku self-abuse suttee self-renunciation felo-de-se death wish self-slaughter self-murder

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Antonyms

life selfishness egoism egotism self-interest infant mortality

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Hypernyms

kill killing putting to death

Hyponyms

hara-kiri seppuku suttee harikari assisted suicide felo-de-se

Examples

It [love] conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever. Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. Ian McEwan

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before. Andrew O'Hagan

it is a crime to commit suicide Source: Internet

In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction, and suicide. Source: Internet

Over a long-enough timeframe, the probability of self-annihilation borders on certainty. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

self-analyzing self-annihilate self-annihilated self-anoint self-antigen self-applause