autoicon

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English

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Etymology

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From auto- +‎ icon.

Noun

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autoicon (plural autoicons)

  1. Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
    • 2008, Robin Osborne, Jeremy Tanner, Art's Agency and Art History:
      [] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body []
    • 2009, Keith Hayward, Shadd Maruna, Jayne Mooney, Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology:
      Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'.