thanatotic

English

Adjective

thanatotic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Thanatos, the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:

     They were staring with a drugged, thanatotic avidity at the loading bay.

2. Of or pertaining to thanatosis.
   • 2001, Karl Shuker, The Hidden Powers of Animals: Uncovering the Secrets of Nature, Reader's Digest Association, page 125:

     Eventually, faced with what appears to be an unpalatable corpse, the aggressor departs, and only then - on some occasions up to six hours after it first entered its thanatotic state - does the [possum rise].