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cannibalism
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1. In anthropology, the eating of human flesh by human beings, sometimes ceremoniously as a symbol of power, manliness, energy, or aggressiveness as when eating the sexual organs, heart or brain of enemies.2. In sexology, a rare disorder in which a person feels a compulsive urge to eat human flesh. Synonym: anthropophagy.
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