Morbid vs Thanatomania - What's the difference?
morbid | thanatomania |
(originally) Of, or relating to disease.
Taking an interest in unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish
Grisly or gruesome.
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
As an adjective morbid
is of, or relating to disease.As a noun thanatomania is
the morbid belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed or bewitched by an enemy.morbid
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* morbidity * morbidly * morbidnessSynonyms
* (of or relating to disease) pathological * (unhealthy or unwholesome) sick, twisted, unhealthy, unwholesome, warped * (suggesting the horror of death) black, ghoulish, grim, macabre * bloody, disgusting, gory, grisly, gruesome, sickeningthanatomania
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Noun
(-)- Suicide may also sometimes be effectuated by the mechanism of thanatomania .