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Morbid vs Thanatomania - What's the difference?

morbid | thanatomania |

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

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * morbidity * morbidly * morbidness

    Synonyms

    * (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, sickening

    thanatomania

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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 .