thanatophobiac

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noun

One affected by thanatophobia; a person with a morbid dread of death.

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Meanings

nounthanatophobiac (plural thanatophobiacs)

plural thanatophobiacs

  1. medicineOne affected by thanatophobia; a person with a morbid dread of death.

    Witry says that from his own practice he believes thanatophobiacs are almost always from the professional or upper middle classes, those from the lower classes meeting death with more stoicism than those of the upper.

    1922, Granville Stanley Hall, Senescence, the Last Half of Life, page 448
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