Synonyms of self-annihilation

self-annihilation

noun

as in self-immolation

Related Words

• self-immolation
• neutrality
• objectivity
• self-flagellation
• altruism
• impartiality
• disinterestedness
• generosity
• fairness
• detachment
• self-sacrifice
• magnanimity
• selflessness
• unselfishness
• self-forgetfulness
• self-abandonment

Dissimilar Words

• selfishness
• narcissism
• egoism
• egotism
• self-absorption
• self-interest
• selfness
• egocentricity
• egocentrism
• self-involvement
• self-preoccupation
• self-centeredness
• egomania
• self-concern
• navel-gazing
• complacency
• self-regard
• ego
• vanity
• self-sufficiency
• self-love
• self-respect
• complacence
• vainglory
• conceit
• smugness
• self-satisfaction
• self-indulgence
• self-admiration
• pride
• pomposity
• self-conceit
• conceitedness
• pridefulness
• vainness
• self-esteem
• pompousness
• self-importance
• vaingloriousness
• self-glorification
• self-content
• self-contentment
• self-consequence
• self-assumption
• self-partiality

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of self-annihilation

The will toward self-annihilation is a familiar human characteristic. — Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

Her self-annihilation is grisly and impossible to misinterpret as a final repudiation of her role in the HMS Courageous bombing and, until Grace announces she’d like Hal to be her vice-president, is the most intense and far-reaching twist of the episode. — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025

And he is compelled by a righteous fury to warn others of his son’s dark path to self-annihilation. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025

The broken family exults in its own debasement just like the protesters and activist judges who pursue self-annihilation as liberation. — Armond White, National Review, 19 Mar. 2025

The clock, which is updated by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is meant to be a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation. — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025

The image becomes metabolized by the fungus in a process of self-annihilation and, like the memory itself, given a new kind of presence through its decay. — Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has maintained the clock since 1947. — Doyle Rice, The Courier-Journal, 23 Jan. 2024

These stellar objects, called dark stars, might have been fueled not by nuclear fusion but by the self-annihilation of dark matter—the invisible stuff that is thought to make up about 85 percent of the matter in the universe. — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023