thanatism

noun

thanatism

noun

Etymology From thanato- + -ism. Coined by Ernst Haeckel.

1

The belief that the human soul eventually dies.

Or to put it in the bracingly original terms of “The Second Plane,” it is misology that is the cause of thanatism.2008 April 27, Leon Wieseltier, “The Catastrophist”, in New York Times:

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