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Meanings of thanatos in English

Spanish
instinto de muerte

(Psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die.

        instinto de muerte
        Synonyms
        Examples for "death instinct"
        Examples for "death instinct"
        1
        The Death Instinct attempts to win Nirvana by destroying itself.
        The Demolished Man
        2
        The Life Instinct and Death Instinct have defused.
        The Demolished Man
        3
        The Life Instinct and the Death Instinct.
        The Demolished Man
        1
        Definitely a food for someone with a bit of a death wish.
        The Guardian
        2
        However, she rode the bike like a person with a death wish.
        No mercy
        3
        It's hard not to suspect the party has a built-in death wish.
        News.com.au
        4
        If he'd had a genuine death wish he'd be dead, wouldn't he?
        Bangkok 8
        5
        The eyes held a death wish for Quinn- amutualloathing, Quinn realized.
        By reason of insanity
        Usage of thanatos in English
        1
        NOTES.-Thanatopsisis composed of two Greek words, thanatos, meaning death, and opsis, a view.
        McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
        2
        This resolution works as an anguished metaphor: there's almost a kind of thanatos, a yearning for death in the mind of the sufferer.
        The Guardian
        3
        By the time he thought to ask another question, Thanatos was gone.
        For Love Of Evil
        4
        When Thanatos changed, by assassinating the prior officeholder and taking his place.
        For Love Of Evil
        5
        Thanatos is not a god, not at all a King of Terrors.
        Alcestis
        6
        Eros and Thanatos, all in one, dressed in tux and top hat.
        John Winchester’s Journal
        7
        Ares and Thanatos vaporized him with a double blast of godly wrath.
        Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
        8
        Thanatos fell months behind on his rounds, and made increasing errors of classification.
        For Love Of Evil
        9
        The labels remain unchanged-Eros, Logos, Thanatos-while the world undergoes drastic alterations.
        The Civilization of Illiteracy
        10
        One was an emulation of Thanatos, and the other of Chronos.
        For Love Of Evil
        11
        I warn you that when 'Thanatos' snores the rafters will ring.
        The Man Who Rocked the Earth
        12
        On the other hand, Thanatos looked very much alive, and in lovely condition!
        The Flight of the Shadow
        13
        Thanatos had spoken truly; she was with him, in the blood!
        For Love Of Evil
        14
        Thanatos (Death) and his twin-brother Hypnus (Sleep) were the children of Nyx.
        Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
        15
        Apparently, therefore, he must be Thanatos, whom we have just seen on the stage.
        Alcestis
        16
        His own horse he called Thanatos, which means Death.
        The Flight of the Shadow
        Translations for thanatos
        Thanatos through the time