Autoicon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Autoicon is a noun meaning Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
Meaning
Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
Example Sentences
Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'.
[…] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body […]
Word Forms
- autoicons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include identicon, icon, autonymy, autogram, subicon, symbol.
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