thanatism
English edit
Etymology edit
thanato- + -ism. Coined by Ernst Haeckel.
Noun edit
thanatism (uncountable)
- The belief that the human soul eventually dies.
- 2008 April 27, Leon Wieseltier, “The Catastrophist”, in New York Times[1]:
- Or to put it in the bracingly original terms of “The Second Plane,” it is misology that is the cause of thanatism.