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Meaning of thanatotic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Examples

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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