The practice or act of building cenotaphs; memorialization through empty tombs or monuments without physical remains.
From cenotaph plus the noun suffix -y, creating an abstract noun. Describes the tradition of honoring the dead in their absence.
Cenotaphy is an ancient practice—the Greeks and Romans did it, and every culture with wars or maritime disasters has cenotaphs, which makes it one of humanity's oldest ways of dealing with grief when the body is gone.
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