thanatomania

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noun

The morbid belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed or bewitched by an enemy.

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Meanings

nounthanatomania (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe morbid belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed or bewitched by an enemy.

    Suicide may also sometimes be effectuated by the mechanism of thanatomania.

    1971, Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht, Hans Huldrych Walser, Huldrych M. Koelbing, Medicine and ethnology: selected essays

Origin

From thanato- + -mania.

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Translations

Portuguese tanatomania
  • tanatomaniabelief that one is fated to die, having been cursed
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APA

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Chicago

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