• Thanatomania

    Origin

    - + mania + -

    Full definition of thanatomania

    Noun

    thanatomania

    (uncountable)
    1. The morbid belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed or bewitched by an enemy.
      • 1971, Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht, Hans Huldrych Walser, Huldrych M. Koelbing, Medicine and ethnology: selected essays:Suicide may also sometimes be effectuated by the mechanism of thanatomania.
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