suicidality

noun — 2 senses

suicidality

noun

Etymology From suicidal + -ity.

1

The tendency of a person to commit suicide.

  • In contrast, for individuals with an interpsychic focus, suicidality is often related to interpersonal struggles[…]2009, Ellen T. Kahn-Greene, Chronic vs. acute suicidal risk, page 19:
2

A fatality that is an instance of suicide.

  • The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except for suicidalities) for students with moderate and severe internet addiction.2019 October 23, Wan-jun Guo, Yu-jie Tao, Xiao-jing Li, Xia Lin, Ya-jing Meng, Xia Yang, et al., “Internet addiction severity and risk for psychopathology, serious mental illness, and suicidalities: a cross-sectional study”, in The Lancet^(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32424-9/fulltext), volume 394:
Derived terms
parasuicidality

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