Pseudocide
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Noun



  1. A faked or pretend death.
    • 1972 March, Hamblin, R.L., & Jacobsen, R.B., “Suicide and pseudocide: a reanalysis of Maris's data”, J Health Soc Behav, 13(1):99-109
    • 2000 February 14, “Pseudocide: Doing a Reggie Perrin”, BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/639098.stm
      Some suspect Lord Lucan of pseudocide after he vanished in 1974 on the night of a murder in the Lucan household. His family, though, are convinced the peer killed himself for real.
    • 2005, Philip M. McCarthy, An Assessment of the Range and Usefulness of Lexical Diversity Measures and the Potential of the Measure of Textual, Lexical Diversity (MTLD), PhD dissertation, The University of Memphis.
      Osgood examined suicide notes and compared them to pseudocide notes predicting that greater motivational levels would lead to more frequent use of high frequency words.
  2. An emotional death that leaves the body alive but barely functioning.
 
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