Meaning of memorycide | Babel Free

Definitions

The deliberate destruction of all traces and physical reminders of a people.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“And we can but fear the consequence of this memorycide on the future of Lebanon.”

“They foreshadowed a total war against a population threatened with "memorycide," to use Mirko Grmek's terminology, as well as "Urbicide," a fundamental dimension of this memorycide, as Bogdan Bogdanovic put it.”

“I remembered the first peace activists who came with their ideas of nonviolent actions against the war already in 1991; I could evoke many images of war atrocities, tortures and moments of memorycide but also the miraculous situations of human support and actions across borders; I couldn't foget my own restlessness facing women victims of rape, their silence, their shame and their dignity.”

“Beyond that, the assumed project of memorycide offers a negative foil for the duty to remember and for the dedication of museums, memorials, and monuments.”

CEFR level