Genocidist vs. Genocide

Genocidistnoun

Someone who advocates for or is responsible for enacting genocide.

Genocidenoun

The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.

Genocidenoun

(by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

Genocidenoun

The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.

Genocideverb

To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

Genocidenoun

The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; as, the Nazi genocide of Jews left few in Germany or Poland after World War II.

Genocidenoun

systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

Genocide

Genocide is the intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. A term coined by Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, the hybrid word geno-cide is a combination of the Greek word γένος (genos, ) and the Latin suffix -caedo ().The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as including the killing of its members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to , preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.