Selficide

Quick meaning: Selficide is a noun meaning (informal) Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment.

Meaning

(informal) Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment.

More Meanings

1. The metaphorical killing of the self.

Example Sentences

Drowning, being hit by a vehicle[, and] suffering a fall [are] the most common causes of ‘selficide’.

Even Dostoevsky's supposedly Christlike character Prince Myshkin ends in a suicide, or more literally, "selficide," […]

A recent study documented 259 deaths worldwide caused by people taking selfies – dubbed “selficides” by the researchers – between October 2011 and November 2017.

Selficides were already in the news last weekend, when it was revealed that an Indian couple who fell to their death at Yosemite National Park had alcohol in their system.

Word Forms

• selficides

Synonyms for selficide

Depending on context, synonyms include killfie.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include killfie, self-killing, self-immolation, suicide, self-death, selfslaughter.

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