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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope