Thanatomania

Origin

- + mania + -

Full definition of thanatomania

Noun

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.