genocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/
Forms: form: genocides
Etymology: Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.
Senses: examples: text: A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
text: For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
ref: 1944, November, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, "Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress", chapter 9, page 79
text: Shaddam IV: I want fifty legion of Sardaukar on Arrakis at once!
Subordinate: Fifty legions? That's our entire reserves as well.
Shaddam IV: This is genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis!
ref: 1984, 1:49:22 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Shaddam IV, →OCLC:
text: Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
ref: 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
text: A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.
ref: 2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020:
glosses: The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
glosses: The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.
examples: text: Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority. They have survived centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on them by non-Native Americans— both the well-meaning and the self-seeking— […]
ref: 1986, James Stuart Olson, Raymond Wilson, Native Americans in the Twentieth Century, →ISBN:
glosses: The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
examples: text: I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.
ref: 2000, Kimmo Kasila, “Arch lich at Minetown bones, Help!”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
text: What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
ref: 2020, John Harris, Exploring Roguelike Games, CRC Press, →ISBN:
text: The three main playstyles are neutral (the player kills some, but not all monsters), pacifist (all monsters are spared) and genocide (all monsters are eliminated).
ref: 2022 May 29, Gabriel Elvery, “Undertale’s Loveable Monsters: Investigating Parasocial Relationships with Non-Player Characters”, in Games and Culture, volume 18, number 4, page 477:
topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.
Synonyms: sense: systematic killing of substantial numbers of people
word: genticide
Hypernyms: crime against humanity
Hyponyms: ethnic cleansing
ethnocide
Shoah
holocaust
Holocaust
Porajmos
Samudaripen
Derived terms: antigenocide
Armenian genocide
autogenocide
auto-genocide
counter-genocide
cultural genocide
ethnogenocide
eugenicide
eugenocide
geno
genocidable
genocidal
genocidally
Genocide Joe
genocider
genocidism
genocidist
hot genocide
postgenocide
pregenocide
white genocide
Related terms: cultural genocide
culturicide
democide
ethnocide
genocidaire
mass murder
populicide
dehumanization
Holodomor
pogrom
war crime