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thanatophobia

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thanatophobia
necrophobia, def. 1.
See also: Corpses
necrophobia.
See also: Death
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Noun1.thanatophobia - a morbid fear of death
simple phobia - any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli
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This Gothic thanatophilia allows us to experience death in a virtual form so that we are able to deal with thanatophobia via a kind of catharsis.
The postcolonial Gothic: time and death in southern African literature by Gaylard, Gerald / Journal of Literary Studies
30) This mutation, or reversal (in the form of thanatophobia replacing the aesthetic avant-garde's agonistic thanatophilia) seems apt, given the avant-garde's penchant for rule-breaking.
Vale postmodern thanatogenics? Towards an aesthetic proto-avant-garde by Disney, Dan / Traffic (Parkville)
 
 
 
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