Why this word is great
MUNDICIDE — [Noun] The destruction of a world or planet. From Latin mundus ("world") + -cide ("killing"). Unlike "omnicide" (which erases all existence) or "ecocide" (which ravages nature but leaves the planet intact), mundicide is surgical in its totality—a single world snuffed out like a candle. It is the glassy crater where a city once stood, the silent drift of debris where a moon once orbited, or the cold calculus of a button pressed to reduce a living world to ash and memory. To erase a world is to extinguish not just life, but the very possibility of memory.
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- The destruction of the (or a) world.“But the task of actually destroying the planet, or 'mundicide' as UK Cambridge University mathematics student Sam Hughes calls it in his amusing website (http : // ned.ucam.org/~sdh31/misc/destroy.html) is unimaginably difficult. Nevertheless we all like a challenge,[…]”