pseudocide

n. 假自杀,假自杀者

发音

UK /ˈs(j)uːdəʊ̯ˌsaɪ̯d/
US /ˈs(j)uːdoʊ̯ˌsaɪ̯d/

词形变化

pseudocides 复数 pseudocides

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A death, or suicide attempt, that is faked.

    可数 不可数

    Some suspect Lord Lucan of pseudocide after he vanished in 1974 on the night of a murder in the Lucan household. His family, though, are convinced the peer killed himself for real.

    2005, Philip M. McCarthy, An Assessment of the Range and Usefulness of Lexical Diversity Measures and the Potential of the Measure of Textual, Lexical Diversity (MTLD), PhD dissertation, The University of Memphis. Osgood examined suicide notes and compared them to pseudocide notes predicting that greater motivational levels would lead to more frequent use of high frequency words.

词源

Blend of pseudo- + suicide.

来源：wiktionary