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THANATOPSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does thanatopsis mean?
• THANATOPSIS (noun)
The noun THANATOPSIS has 1 sense:
1. an essay expressing a view on the subject of death
Familiarity information: THANATOPSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An essay expressing a view on the subject of death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("thanatopsis" is a kind of...):
essay (an analytic or interpretive literary composition)
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