thanatopic

comparative more thanatopic · superlative most thanatopic

1. Prone to thanatopsis; morbid.

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

   2003, Peter B. High, Professor David Bordwell, Vance Kepley, The Imperial Screen, page 29

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   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.

   1987, Mark Albert Thorson, The Kernel Or the Mist: Story Against Discourse in Joseph Conrad, page IR-321

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

   2014, Derek Dalton, Dark Tourism and Crime, page 4

   Whether seen as a linear consequence to or a distinct postmodern divergence from thanatopic traditions, contemporary dark tourism has some relevance to present-day thanatopic behaviours – especially when located within a thesis of death sequestration and mediating mortality within contemporary society.

   2014, Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter Davis, Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

2. Deadly.

   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.)

   2015, Steven Trustrum, The Spellweaver Base Class, page 40

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   Although drawn larger than life, Cather's mythological figure of Eros, with his accompanying thanatopic qualities, does not dwarf Alexandra: rather, he both complements and enhances her psyche as an expression of her desire for more than the patriarchy can offer.

   1981, Annis Pratt, Barbara White, Andrea Loewenstein, Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction, page 24

   Thanatopic shuffleboard continues over to starboard; ominous little holes in the deck, bulkhead, railing, and even my little Astroturf square testify to my wisdom in having steered clear of the A.M. Darts Tourney.

   1996, Harper's - Volume 292, Issues 1748-1753