autoinfanticide

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ infanticide

Noun

autoinfanticide (uncountable)

1. (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

See also

• grandfather paradox