Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The eating of human flesh by human beings.
- noun Hence The eating of any animal by another individual of the same species.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
eating another of one's ownspecies . - noun In speech, the occurrence of one word "eating" part or all of the next word, because the syllables ar the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
Etymologies
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Examples
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After a few days of tense exchanges, macho bravado, nervous folk songs, and strained humor, the possibility of cannibalism is raised.
Fantastic Fest Day One - Paranormal Activity, Gentlemen Broncos + more » Scene-Stealers 2009
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I can understand the popcorn, but cannibalism is never appropriate.
Pres. Obama cheers on brother-in-law at basketball game 2009
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I think the sexual connotation of cannibalism is self-evident.
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* Prenatal cannibalism is pretty common amonst several species of North American butterflies when food is low.
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Xisithrus, cannibalism is still a problem in Haiti and good deal of the fault can be laid at the door of liberal permissiveness.
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The cannibalism is a little harder to stomach, as it were — but I'm sure that's exactly why Wells put it in.
Robson, Enge, Sturges, Lloyd and even Yours Truly Lou Anders 2009
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Now they are imprisoned in the coal, and cannibalism is what must occur among them.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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The cannibalism is a little harder to stomach, as it were — but I'm sure that's exactly why Wells put it in.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lou Anders 2009
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Xisithrus, cannibalism is still a problem in Haiti and good deal of the fault can be laid at the door of liberal permissiveness.
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Even if I tried for 40 years, I couldn't make this stuff up: Sheriff's officials were astounded Thursday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being "involved in any senseless killing" while incarcerated.
PETA Requests Vegetarian Diet In Jail For Cannibalism Suspect 2008
sonofgroucho commented on the word cannibalism
Is this the sort of thing you had in mind?
December 12, 2007