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death wish
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Princeton's WordNet
death instinct, death wish, Thanatosnoun
(psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
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death wishnoun
A desire, especially subconscious, for the death of oneself or of someone else.
Etymology: A translation of German Todeswunsch.
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death wish
A death wish is a conscious or subconscious desire for one's own death or suicide. It may also refer to a psychological tendency to engage in harmful or self-destructive behaviors, reflecting an individual's underlying hope or intent to die as a result.
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Death Wish
Death Wish is a 1972 novel by Brian Garfield.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of death wish in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of death wish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of death wish in a Sentence
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
I tell people all the time it’s a death wish, for sure, it takes your breath away. Everything you thought is completely turned on its head – in a moment we went from this family that had a man-child of a son and was hoping he would get out of high school and go to college, and Tom and I would retire and enjoy our lives and just enjoy the future – to being told you have ALS, and it takes that away from you.
He never ran and he never ducked, you know, it’s just amazing. I don’t know if he had some sort of death wish or what — Gunny says that he just gets into a zone and does what he has to do. ... I don’t know how the bullets didn’t hit him.
Translations for death wish
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- تمني الموتArabic
- TodeswunschGerman
- ευχή θανάτου ή τελευταία επιθυμίαGreek
- pulsión de muerteSpanish
- kuolemanhaluFinnish
- pulsion de mortFrench
- mian bháisIrish
- मरने की इच्छाHindi
- halálvágyHungarian
- harapan kematianIndonesian
- augurio di morteItalian
- 死の願望, 自殺願望Japanese
- ಮೃತ್ಯು ಬಯಸುವಿಕೆKannada
- 죽음의 소원Korean
- ut morereturLatin
- doodswens, doodsverlangenDutch
- pulsão de mortePortuguese
- жажда смертиRussian
- dödslängtanSwedish
- 死亡之愿Chinese
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