Eating animals is not that different from anthropophagy or cannibalism.
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Anthropophagy
//ˌæn.θɹəˈpɒ.fə.d͡ʒi//
Synonyms for "anthropophagy" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (1)
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17 translations across 13 languages.
Esperanto
2 entries- antropofagio noun (consumption of human flesh)
- hommanĝado noun (consumption of human flesh)
Finnish
2 entries- antropofagia noun (consumption of human flesh)
- ihmissyönti noun (consumption of human flesh)
French
1 entries- anthropophagie noun (consumption of human flesh)
Galician
1 entries- antropofaxia noun (consumption of human flesh)
German
1 entries- Anthropophagie noun (consumption of human flesh)
Indonesian
1 entries- antropofagi noun (consumption of human flesh)
Italian
1 entries- antropofagia noun (consumption of human flesh)
Japanese
1 entries- 食人 noun (consumption of human flesh)
Malay
1 entries- antropofagi noun (consumption of human flesh)
Polish
2 entries- antropofagia noun (consumption of human flesh)
- ludożerstwo noun (consumption of human flesh)
Portuguese
1 entries- antropofagia noun (consumption of human flesh)
Slovak
1 entries- antropofágia noun (consumption of human flesh)
Turkish
2 entries- antropofaji noun (consumption of human flesh)
- insan yamyamlığı noun (consumption of human flesh)
Sample sentences
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It is, therefore, probable that men in the stone age practised anthropophagy; we have, really, no cause to be surprised at this; since, in our own days, various savage tribes are addicted to cannibalism, under a considerable diversity of circumstances.
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Other paraphilias are more blatantly transgressive and usually illegal: amokoscisia (desire to slash or mutilate females); anthropophagy (cannibalism); anthropophagolagnia (rape accompanied by cannibalism); […]
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