anthropophagy

[an-thruh-pof-uh-jee]

noun

1. the eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

Other Word Forms

• anthropophagic adjective
• anthropophagical adjective
• anthropophagous adjective
• anthropophagously adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of anthropophagy¹

First recorded in 1600–10; from French anthropophagie, from Late Latin anthrōpophagia, from Greek anthrōpophagía; anthropo-, -phagy

Example Sentences

Their first act of anthropophagy was basically an accident.

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Controversy over ancient anthropophagy, or cannibalism, has raged in academia for more than a century.

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Antropofagia, or anthropophagy in English, refers to the eating of human flesh.

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By repurposing anthropophagy as image of cultural voraciousness, the artists in Tarsila’s circle were reclaiming the Brazilian past on new terms.

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Cannibalism is when you kill someone, so technically this is what is known as anthropophagy.

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