Omnicide

by Laura on June 23, 2009

in words

You might think I’m a doom and gloom sort if you knew how inter­est­ing I find the end of civ­i­liza­tion. But it’s actu­ally the rebuild­ing and the sur­vival that really inter­est me. In part the cause and results of how things ended too, like read­ing a really good mys­tery where you have to pull the facts together and form your conclusions.

Any­way, today I found a new word: Omni­cide is human extinc­tion as a result of human action.

To con­tinue wtih the unpleas­ant­ness are geno­cide and sui­cide which also mean extinc­tion of a par­tic­u­lar group or race and extinc­tion of one per­son. But, omni­cide and sui­cide are about destruc­tion from within. I think geno­cide is dif­fer­ent in that way.  No other words with that same root come to my mind right now. Do you know of any?

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