thanatotic

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adjective

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

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Meanings

adjectivethanatotic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to Thanatos, the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

    They were staring with a drugged, thanatotic avidity at the loading bay.

    1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press
  2. not comparableOf or pertaining to thanatosis.

    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].

    2001, Karl Shuker, The Hidden Powers of Animals: Uncovering the Secrets of Nature, Reader's Digest Association, page 125
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