neonaticide
nounEtymology From neonate + -cide.
1
The murder of a newborn within 24 hours of birth.
- But critics of the law said mothers who immediately kill their babies after giving birth, a practice known as neonaticide, are usually in deep denial about their pregnancies.2007 February 4, Cara Buckley, “Brooklyn Girl Threw Away Her Newborn Son, Police Say”, in New York Times:
2
The murderer of a newborn (anyone who practices or who has practiced this kind of murder).
- Derived terms
- neonaticidal
- Related terms
- abortion, filicide, infanticide, pedicide, prolicide