Thanatotic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Thanatos, the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis. not-comparable

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

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to thanatosis. not-comparable

    "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]."

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