Word Type

Noun

The word "cannibalism" can be used as a noun.

Word Relationships

Defined As

practice of eating flesh of own kind

Derived From

cannibal

Has Property

wrong

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

pattern practice

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

autocannibalism endocannibalism exocannibalism hypercannibalism sexual cannibalism

Type Of (IsA)

ingesting practice

Related Terms

anthropophagy anticannibalism cannibal cannibalistic galactic cannibalism kuru mad cow disease prion

Related Terms

eat kuru mad cow disease prion species

Similar Terms

antropofagia

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.