Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Death as a personification or as a philosophical notion.
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- proper noun Greek mythology Ancient
Greek God of peaceful or naturaldeath . - noun psychoanalysis the death drive in
Freudian psychoanalysis.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) the Greek personification of death; son of Nyx
- noun (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Here, Thanatos is being positively deployed against Eros.
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Here, Thanatos is being positively deployed against Eros.
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Freud talks about the death drive, which others refer to as the Thanatos drive.
Which US citizens are fighting against "truth and justice"! 2007
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Freud talks about the death drive, which others refer to as the Thanatos drive.
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His own horse he called Thanatos, which means Death.
The Flight of the Shadow George MacDonald 1864
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He said he chose the name Thanatos - a minor figure in Greek mythology who personified "death" - as his persona because street people told him that was all they had to look forward to.
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I give you the health of 'Thanatos' -- the leviathan of artillery, the winged bearer of death and destruction -- and of its inventor, Herr von Heckmann.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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The fragrance evoked an aroma of fruits and flowers so ripe, they are starting to decay, reminding us of Thanatos, which is forever inseparable from Eros.
Archive 2007-07-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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Furthermore, most cultures do have real or imagined varieties of religion that are malign in purpose, or which celebrate or are at least somehow expressive of what Freud called Thanatos, the "death instinct."
Archive 2006-01-08 2006
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Furthermore, most cultures do have real or imagined varieties of religion that are malign in purpose, or which celebrate or are at least somehow expressive of what Freud called Thanatos, the "death instinct."
THE DARKEST NIGHT by Peter Saxon (Paperback Library 1967) 2006
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