| \in-ter-NEE-seen, -sahyn, -NES-een, -NES-ahyn\ | adjective
1. mutually destructive.
2. of or relating to conflict or struggle within a group: an internecine feud among proxy holders.
| | Quotes | Scientists such as Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller claimed that only by uniting in a world government the peoples could avoid internecine nuclear wars…
-- Furio Cerutti, Global Challenges for Leviathan, 2007 | | Origin | | Internecine can be traced to the Latin verb necāre meaning "to kill." It entered English in the mid-1600s. | |
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