autoicon

Etymology

From auto- + icon.

autoicon means something that serves as an icon representing itself. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

Something that serves as an icon representing itself.“[…] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body […]”