From cannibal + -ism .
cannibalism (usually uncountable , plural cannibalisms )
The act of eating another of one's own species .
1887 , Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia , page 31 :Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.
( figurative ) An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
( linguistics ) In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".
act of eating another of one's own species
Armenian: մարդակերություն (hy) ( mardakerutʻyun ) ( of humans )
Asturian: antropofaxa f , canibalismu m
Catalan: antropofàgia f , canibalisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 同類相食 / 同类相食 (zh) ( tónglèi xiāngshí ) , ( of humans ) 食人 (zh) ( shírén )
Czech: kanibalismus (cs) m
Danish: kannibalisme (da) c
Dutch: kannibalisme (nl) n
Esperanto: kanibalismo , samspecimanĝado
Faroese: mannaát n
Finnish: kannibalismi (fi)
French: cannibalisme (fr) m
Galician: antropofaxia (gl) f , canibalismo (gl) m
German: Kannibalismus (de) m
Greek: κανιβαλισμός (el) m ( kanivalismós ) , ανθρωποφαγία (el) f ( anthropofagía )
Ancient: ἀνθρωποφαγία ( anthrōpophagía ) , ἀλληλοφαγία ( allēlophagía )
Indonesian: kanibalisme (id)
Italian: cannibalismo (it) m
Japanese: カニバリズム (ja) ( kanibarizumu ) , 共食い (ja) ( tomogui ) , ( of humans ) 人食い (ja) ( hitokui )
Kazakh: ( of humans ) адам жегіштік ( adam jegıştık )
Malay: kanibalisme (ms)
Manx: canniblaght f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kannibalisme (no) m
Nynorsk: kannibalisme m
Occitan: antropofagia (oc) f , canibalisme m
Persian: همنوعخواری ( hamnow'-xâri ) , ( of humans ) آدمخواری ( âdam-xâri )
Polish: antropofagia (pl) f , ( literary ) ludożerstwo (pl) n , kanibalizm (pl) m
Portuguese: antropofagia (pt) f , canibalismo m
Romanian: canibalism (ro) n
Russian: каннибали́зм (ru) m ( kannibalízm ) , ( of humans ) людое́дство (ru) n ( ljudojédstvo )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: канибалѝзам m , људо̀жде̄рство n
Roman: kanibalìzam (sh) m , ljudòždērstvo (sh) n
Slovak: ľudožrútstvo n , ľudojedstvo n , kanibalizmus m , antropofágia (sk) f
Spanish: antropofagia (es) f , canibalismo (es) m
Swedish: kannibalism (sv) c
Telugu: స్వజాతి భక్షణ ( svajāti bhakṣaṇa ) , నరమాంస భక్షణ ( naramāṁsa bhakṣaṇa )
Turkish: yamyamlık (tr)
Ukrainian: канібалі́зм m ( kanibalízm ) , людоже́рство n ( ljudožérstvo ) , людої́дство n ( ljudojídstvo )
Vietnamese: ăn thịt đồng loại