Memorycide

Quick meaning: Memorycide is a noun meaning The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.

Meaning

The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.

Example Sentences

And we can but fear the consequence of this memorycide on the future of Lebanon.

Beyond that, the assumed project of memorycide offers a negative foil for the duty to remember and for the dedication of museums, memorials, and monuments.

They foreshadowed a total war against a population threatened with "memorycide," to use Mirko Grmek's terminology, as well as "Urbicide," a fundamental dimension of this memorycide, as Bogdan Bogdanovic put it.

I remembered the first peace activists who came with their ideas of nonviolent actions against the war already in 1991; I could evoke many images of war atrocities, tortures and moments of memorycide but also the miraculous situations of human support and actions across borders; I couldn't foget my own restlessness facing women victims of rape, their silence, their shame and their dignity.

Word Forms

• memorycides

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include memocide, policide, menticide, culturicide, religicide, technocide.

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