autoinfanticide
English edit
Etymology edit
auto- + infanticide
Noun edit
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