filicide
Killing one's offspring
Filicide is the killing of one's own child.
The term covers both the act and the person who commits it.
It appears primarily in legal, psychiatric, and criminological contexts: The case was classified as filicide.
Related terms include infanticide (killing an infant) and neonaticide (killing a newborn).
Deliberate unlawful killing
- manslaughterUnlawful killing without forethought
- felonySerious criminal offense
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- convictionFirmly held belief
incarceration · penalty · sentencing · arraignment · indictment · defendant · perpetrator · premeditation
Severe reality detachment
- postpartumAfter childbirth period
- depressionProlonged low state
- mental-illnessCondition affecting psychological wellbeing
- delusionStubbornly held false belief
altruistic · unwanted · revenge · custody · desperation · resentment · overwhelmed · breakdown
Intense sorrow from loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
anguish · trauma · devastation · heartbreak · suffering · despair · lamentation · survivors
Odiously, shockingly evil
- monstrousFrighteningly huge or wicked
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- atrociousAppallingly, shockingly wicked
- abominableExtremely hateful or disgusting
unspeakable · ghastly · barbaric · inhuman · macabre · unforgivable · inexcusable · appalling
Biological descendants produced
- progenyOne's biological descendants
- consanguinityRelatedness through shared ancestry
Not allowed
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- disgraceLoss of honor
- anathemaIntensely detested thing
abomination · pariah · ostracism · condemnation · denunciation · revulsion · outcast · shunned
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
- manslaughterUnlawful killing without forethought
- felonySerious criminal offense
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
conviction · incarceration · penalty · sentencing · arraignment · indictment · defendant · perpetrator · premeditation · culpability
psychosis
Severe reality detachment
- postpartumAfter childbirth period
- depressionProlonged low state
- mental-illnessCondition affecting psychological wellbeing
delusion · altruistic · unwanted · revenge · custody · desperation · resentment · overwhelmed · breakdown · snapped
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- mourningPeriod following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
sorrow · anguish · trauma · devastation · heartbreak · suffering · despair · lamentation · survivors · victim
heinous
Odiously, shockingly evil
- monstrousFrighteningly huge or wicked
- gruesomeCausing horror and disgust
- atrociousAppallingly, shockingly wicked
abominable · unspeakable · ghastly · barbaric · inhuman · macabre · unforgivable · inexcusable · appalling · shocking
offspring
Biological descendants produced
- progenyOne's biological descendants
- consanguinityRelatedness through shared ancestry
forbidden
Not allowed
anathema · abomination · pariah · ostracism · condemnation · denunciation · revulsion · outcast · shunned · untouchable
filicidechildbirth
Infant's emergence from womb
procreation · nurturing · child-rearing · childbearing · mothering
suicide, pesticide, homicide, genocide, regicide, matricide, infanticide, herbicide, fratricide