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English
Etymology
From thanato- + -mania.
Noun
thanatomania (uncountable)
- 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.
Translations
belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed