terricide means the destruction of ecosystems, human lives, and intangible energies that regulate human and nonhuman life. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TERRICIDE — [Noun] The deliberate annihilation of a place as a living whole: its ecosystems, its human inhabitants, and the intangible energies that bind them. From the Latin terra ("earth, land, world") and the suffix -cide, from caedere ("to kill, cut down"). Unlike "ecocide," which indicts the ruination of the natural environment, or "genocide," which names the extermination of a people, terricide is the total murder of a world—soil, soul, and society as an indivisible whole. It is the petrochemical rain on a once-fertile delta, the silenced language that held the names for local birds, and the sacred grove felled to sever a people's connection to the divine. This is the final receipt for a place, rendered in ash and silence.
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- The destruction of ecosystems, human lives, and intangible energies that regulate human and nonhuman life.“I have served notice to the state that I am withdrawing my support of its program of terricide in every way I can.”