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Newborn vs Neonaticide - What's the difference?

newborn | neonaticide |

As nouns the difference between newborn and neonaticide

is that newborn is a recently born baby while neonaticide is the murder of a newborn.

As an adjective newborn

is recently born.

newborn

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • recently born.
  • born anew, reborn.

    • Noun

  • A recently born baby.

    • Synonyms

    * neonate

    neonaticide

    English

    Noun

  • The murder of a newborn.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 4, author=Cara Buckley, title=Brooklyn Girl Threw Away Her Newborn Son, Police Say, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But critics of the law said mothers who immediately kill their babies after giving birth, a practice known as neonaticide , are usually in deep denial about their pregnancies. }}

    See also

    * filicide, infanticide, prolicide; abortion