anomic 的詞源

1898年，源自法語 anomique（杜爾凱姆，1897年）； 參見 anomie。

A more important form of suicide is that which the author terms "anomic," by which he means the suicides produced by any sudden social shock or disturbance such as that due to economic disasters. Men commit egoistic suicide because they see no further reason for living, altruistic suicide because the reason for living seems to them to lie outside life itself, anomic suicide because they are suffering from a disturbance of their activity. [review of "Le Suicide" in Mind, April 1898]

作者稱之爲“無序自殺”的一種更爲重要的自殺形式，指的是由任何突然的社會衝擊或干擾引起的自殺，例如由經濟災難引起的自殺。人們會自殺是因爲他們認爲沒有繼續生活的理由，利他主義自殺是因爲他們認爲生活的理由似乎在生命本身之外，無序自殺是因爲他們正在遭受活動的干擾。[Mind 雜誌，1898年4月對《自殺論》的評論]

1919年也有“非法律”的意義。