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
- 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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