humanicide

English

Etymology

From human +‎ -icide.

Noun

humanicide (countable and uncountable, plural humanicides)

1. The destruction of the human race.
   • 1979 January-March, Christian Bay, “A human rights approach to transnational politics”, in Universal Humand Rights, volume 19:

     Short of omnicide, the killing of everything, and of humanicide, the destruction of the whole human race, which a collapse of the ecosystem would bring about (a nuclear World War III could be a shortcut), surely genocide must be considered the supreme crime against mankind.

   • 2008, Christopher Ejsmond -, Reflections on Life, page 64:

     What type of democracy enacts humanicide to attempt to save humanity?

   • 2012, Thomas Keating, The Thomas Keating Reader:

     As we contront the crisis of civilization culminating in the specter of humanicide, is there an alternative to the present plunge of humanity toward the abyss of utmost violence?

   • 2015, Cyrus R.K. Patell, “Speculative Fiction”, in Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination:

     … through a world war in which “a handful of people tried to commit humanicide,” thereby reducing the earth to a new state of nature.

2. A substance, person, or group that exterminates people.
   • 1895, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 104:

     You will pardon me for telling you just what I at the time thought, viz. that you needed a "humanicide" as badly as you needed insecticides.

   • 1991, Robert David Rodale, Mike McGrath, Save Three Lives: A Plan for Famine Prevention, page 59:

     Almost all these poisons are extremely effective humanicides as well.

   • 1992, The Womb Becomes a Tomb: Are We Sacrificing to Moloch?, page 17:

     To facilitate the process of the suction of the fetus, the "humanicides" invented a new technique.

   • 2010, Louis J. Salome, Violence, Veils and Bloodlines: Reporting from War Zones, page 57:

     The German Gas Company. We specialize in Humanicides serving Iraq and Libya.

   • 2016, JC Trainini, “SOFÍA SABSAY (Argentine contemporary Artist, 1924-2008)”, in Revista Argentina de Cardiología:

     Man has been a “humanicide”. That is what Adorno meant when he said “It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz”.