Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A meditation upon death.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A view or contemplation of death.
Wiktionary
- n. contemplation of death
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an essay expressing a view on the subject of death
Etymologies
- Greek thanatos, death + -opsis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As the countdown continued and the ritual of docile thanatopsis became more intense, Matt and Emily began to edge away from their half-mesmerized guards, pushing Eve in the antigrav chair and keeping close to the outer ring of lepidos.”
“After they are informed of the situation, Administrator Ru Lokinak will lead us in the ritual of docile thanatopsis, since there is no Anointed Elder in the company.”
“It had to be the Haluk thanatopsis — their death meditation.”
“Faintly, I heard the sound of the thanatopsis chant.”
“This intimate thanatopsis had made him hard and he almost regretted having killed the Chinese boy.”
“The pie list swelled; the richer puddings had vanished; the sausage, with his drapery wrapped about him, barely lingered in a pleasant thanatopsis with the buckwheats and the sweet but doomed maple.”
“NBC’s airing of Cho Seung-Hui’s ranting thanatopsis isn't anything media wouldn't have run with 200 years ago.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thanatopsis’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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good ones
grumble, fumble, bumble, stumble, crumble, mumble, jumble, humble, bramble, scramble, amble, ramble and 191 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Myth
augean, bacchanal, cereal, cimmerian, cupidity, cyclopean, mercurial, jovial, hermetic, halcyon, titanic, furious and 105 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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researchgirl's Words
palpable, vade mecum, penumbra, ephemera, esoteric, quirky, quintessential, aphorism, amnesia, insomnia, synesthesia, apostasy and 186 more...
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danallison's Words
polysemy, self-reliance, savor, amenities, vintage, proverbial, colloquial, assemblage, ubiquitous, jocular, prosaic, perambulation and 443 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Master
comprehensive
picaresque, carnivalesque, -esque, grotesque, Cocteau, necropolis, hypnopædic, mojito, imprimatur, insouciance, idyll, maestro and 239 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Death
postmortem, antemortem, casketing, cadaveric, entombment, inurnment, casket coach, cremains, disinterment, epitaph, bequest, catacombs and 59 more...
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tuatara's Words
wonky, purple prose, arabesque, kismet, tuatara, flotilla, coprolite, succor, thanatopsis, wedgie, hairball, brae and 1 more...
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Four Million
heimganger, perfecto, hegira, eleemosynary, philtre, paregoric, officinal, menstruum, contumelious, welkin, thanatopsis, hymeneal and 5 more...
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laurea's Words
lackadaisical, laelia, laurel, frippery, lascivious, cacophony, effectuate, leukorrhea, kerfluffle, nickelodeon, garrulous, onomastics and 63 more...
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