thanatomania
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thanatomania


Term: thanatomania


Literally meaning: ?a suicidal mania or craze for dye?

Origin: Anc Greek
???????/thanatos(=death) >  ??????thnesko(=dye) > ?????/theino(=smite, kill)
-?????/ -mania (=combining form denoting passion, forse, mania, enthusiasm, frenzy) > ?????/menos(=life, vigor)

Coined/History
By physician, anthropologist and protector of Aborigines Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) in order to express the fact that the Australian aboriginal patients (Queensland) were under complete inhibition of the will to live induced by the thought of being under a spell.   
   
  Thanatos  in Grek mythology was a minor daemon (in Roman mythology was translated as Mors). According Greek poet Hesiod   thanatos was the son of Nyx (Night) and Erebos (Darkness) and twin oh Hypnos (Sleep) 
 
 Sourse : Roth, W. (1984) The Queensland Aborigines, 1984 facsimile edition, Queensland Government Printer; originally Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (1897).

Definition
Thanatomania is
1. the obsession  in the power of evil spirits and magic leading to a fated death.
2. a suicidal  fatalism. 




- Thanatology
Term: thanatology Literally meaning: ?study of death? Origin: Anc Greek???????/thanatos(=death) >  ??????/thnisko(=die), ?????/theino(=smite, kill).?????)/-logia(=logy, suffix meaning ?study of?, ?speech?, ?discourse?) > ???/leo (=speak). Coined/Historyby...

- Mania
?????/mania (=combining form meaning passion, forse, mania, enthusiasm, frenzy) > ?????/menos(=life, vigor) In Psychology mania is defined as the state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood in a period of time of seven or more days, where...

- -mania
-?????/ -mania  > ?????/mania (=combining form meaning passion, forse, mania, enthusiasm, frenzy) >  ?????/menos(=life, vigor) In Psychology mania is defined as the state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood in a period of time...

- Psychosis
Term: psychosisLiterally meaning:Origin: Anc Greek????/psixhi > ????/psicho (= blow, breath). A psyche in mythology means a butterfly or the soul, spirit, breath and  life. +(-????)/-osis(=suffic denoting  process)Coined/HistoryThe word ''psychosis''...

- Lethargy
Term: lethargy Origin:  Anc Greek ????????/lethargos (=awareness) >????/lethe (= forgetfulness) Definition:Lethargy is a state of awareness. Lethargy in common usage may mean also  fatigue, drowsiness (sleepiness), tiredness, listlessness,...



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