ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Thanatotic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Thanatotic is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to Thanatos, the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Thanatos, the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

More Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to thanatosis.

Example Sentences

They were staring with a drugged, thanatotic avidity at the loading bay.
Eventually, faced with what appears to be an unpalatable corpse, the aggressor departs, and only then - on some occasions up to six hours after it first entered its thanatotic state - does the [possum rise].

Related Words

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

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