noun
(psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
• Syn: ↑death instinct, ↑Thanatos
• Topics: ↑psychoanalysis, ↑analysis, ↑depth psychology
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noun : the conscious or unconscious desire for the death of another or of oneself
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1. desire for one's own death or for the death of another.
2. Psychiatry. a suicidal desire, manifested by passivity, withdrawal, and absorption in nihilistic thoughts, that may eventually lead to suicidal behavior.
[1910-15]
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death wish noun (psychology)
A wish, conscious or unconscious, for death for oneself or another
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Main Entry: ↑death
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death wish UK US noun [singular]
a feeling of wanting to die
Thesaurus: sadness and unhappinesssynonym
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death wish,
(in Freudian psychology) a wish, either conscious or unconscious, for one's own or someone else's death: »
His hero is a writer whose nature is destructive; at the beginning, we see him with a pronounced death wish which he seems to conquer as he becomes a successful playwright (Malcolm Bradbury).
╂[translation of German Todeswunsch]
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n. a desire for someone's death, esp. an unconscious desire for one's own death. Compare with death instinct
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noun [singular]
: a desire to die
Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.
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a desire to die, often that sb is not aware of
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The number of accidents she gets into, you'd think she had a death wish.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.