autoinfanticide
nounEtymology From auto- + infanticide.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.
- For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time:
- The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212:
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