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English
Etymology
From auto- + destructive.
Adjective
autodestructive (comparative more autodestructive, superlative most autodestructive)
- Self-destroying; self-destructive.
1993, Jonathan Law, European culture: a contemporary companion, page 247:[…] until 1957 he was a painter. However, as he told Bomberg, he was searching for something 'extremely fast and intense' and in 1960 he began 'painting' with acid on nylon, thus becoming a pioneer of autodestructive art, for which he has remained the chief spokesman.
1996 June 28, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Acid Western”, in Chicago Reader:Collectively they conjure up a crazed version of autodestructive white America at its most solipsistic, hankering after its own lost origins.
2000 June 16, Per-Arne Oldenborg et al., “Role of CD47 as a Marker of Self on Red Blood Cells”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 2051–2054:In contrast to what might be expected, MHC class I-deficient mice are not autodestructive.