单词 | death instinct |
释义 | death instinctSEE SYNONYMS FOR death instinct ON THESAURUS.COM nounsuicidal tendency or inclination; predisposition to self-destruction. Psychoanalysis. an impulse to withdraw or destroy, working in opposition to forces urging survival and creation (life instinct ). Origin of death instinctFirst recorded in 1915–20 Words nearby death instinctdeath duty, deathful, death futures, death grant, death house, death instinct, Death in Venice, death knell, deathless, deathlike, deathly Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Medical definitions for death instinctdeath instinct n.A primitive impulse for destruction, decay, and death, manifested by a turning away from pleasure, postulated by Sigmund Freud as coexisting with and opposing the life instinct.Thanatos The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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