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English
Etymology
From auto- + infanticide.
Noun
autoinfanticide (uncountable)
- (science fiction) The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.
2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time:For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.
2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212:The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past
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