Associations to the word «Thanatos»

Wiktionary

THANATOS, proper noun. (Greek god) The god of death, (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.
THANATOS, noun. (psychoanalysis) the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

Dictionary definition

THANATOS, noun. (Greek mythology) the Greek personification of death; son of Nyx.
THANATOS, noun. (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats