Thanatopic

Quick meaning: Thanatopic is an adjective meaning Prone to thanatopsis; morbid.

Meaning

Prone to thanatopsis; morbid.

Example Sentences

Pictures of young lovers creeping up the slope arm-in-arm were published with syrupy thanatopic captions.

Seaton (1996) argues that dark tourism emerges from what he terms the 'thanatopic tradition' (i.e. the private contemplation of death in public places).

Conrad was always inclined to feel guilty about his thanatopic morbidity and anxious about its reception by an audience conceived of as an interminable succession of Bobrowskis.

A thanatopic spellweave that would kill a living creature (such as by giving it negative levels equal to its Hit Dice) destroys an undead (though undead such as ghosts, liches, and vampires may reform as normal.)

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thanatological, thanatographic, thanatographical, thanatotic, thanatophobic, thanatocratic.

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