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Genocide vs Xenocide - What's the difference?

genocide | xenocide |

As nouns the difference between genocide and xenocide

is that genocide is the systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities while xenocide is the genocide of an entire alien species.

As a verb genocide

is to commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

genocide

English

(wikipedia genocide)

Noun

  • The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
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    • Usage notes

    (Genocide definitions) Genocide is defined in various laws, and used in varying ways; characterization of an act as “genocide” is a strong condemnation, and may prove contentious. Narrowly speaking, genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group qua group, whether killing of all members of the group or other means, such as dispersing the group. In common usage, “genocide” is often used to mean “systematic mass killing”, whether or not the purpose is the destruction of the group or some other purpose, such as terrorizing the group. Specific genocides are often capitalized, e.g. "Armenian G enocide".

    Derived terms

    * autogenocide, auto-genocide * cultural genocide * genocidal * genocidally * genocidism * genocidist

    Related terms

    * ethnocide, democide (suffixsee)

    See also

    * crime against humanity * dehumanization * democide * ethnic cleansing * holocaust, Holocaust * Holodomor * mass murder * Porajmos * pogrom * Shoah * war crime

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

    • References

    xenocide

    English

    (wikipedia xenocide)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (science fiction) The genocide of an entire alien species.
  • * 1996 : Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind
    • The age that began with one xenocide' attempted had now ended with other ' xenocides prevented or, at least, postponed.
  • (US, colloquial) The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.