Relating to or characteristic of genocide; describing actions, policies, or intentions aimed at destroying an entire ethnic, racial, or national group.
From 'genocide' (from Greek 'genos' meaning race or people, and Latin 'cide' meaning killing), plus the adjective suffix '-al.' The term 'genocide' itself was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin.
The word 'genocide' was invented because the world needed a name for systematic mass killing based on group identity—it's a word born from horror, created to ensure we could speak about and remember atrocities clearly.
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