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to kill time, especially when you're completely bored and lazy. The teacher who didn't come prepared committed chronocide all day long.
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| 1. | chronocide | |
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chronocide n (Greek khronos, time + Latin cidum, from caedere, to slay; cf. genocide, homicide, parricide) - the murder of time, the violent interruption of historical succession and continuity. Any revolution is a form of chronocide: the past and present are sacrificed to the future. Any counterrevolution is also a chronocide: the present and the future are sacrificed to the past.
Communism is a chronocide: it destroys the tradition in its leap to the ungrounded future. Fascism is a chronocide: it brings the society under the spell of the archaic past. |
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A massive waste of time. Defiance of time, either physically, figuratively or philisophically. To rebel against the idea of time. To regress socially or politically on a macro level. The destruction of time itself.
(adj. Chronocidal) "Electoral politics is chronocide for civil rights."
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chronocide n (Gr. khronos, time + Lat. cidum, from caedere, to slay; cf. genocide, homicide, parricide) - the murder of time, the violent interruption of historical succession and continuity. Any revolution is a form of chronocide: the past and present are sacrificed to the future. Any counterrevolution is also a chronocide: the present and the future are sacrificed to the past. Communism is a chronocide: it destroys the tradition in its leap to the ungrounded future. Fascism is a chronocide: it brings the society under the spell of the archaic past. |
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The act of killing time. The employee was fired for committing chronocide when he was supposed to be working.
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the systematic act or process of killing time; the violent destruction of a timekeeping device I commit chronocide at the bus stop, on the bus, and just about everywhere else.
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