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thanatotic en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of 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-comparable) Of 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: