Thanatism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The belief that the human soul eventually dies. uncountable

    "Or to put it in the bracingly original terms of “The Second Plane,” it is misology that is the cause of thanatism."

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"Or to put it in the bracingly original terms of “The Second Plane,” it is misology that is the cause of thanatism."

Etymology

From thanato- + -ism. Coined by Ernst Haeckel.

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