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death anxiety
[ deth ang-zahy-i-tee ]
noun
, Psychiatry.
- a morbid awareness of mortality, together with an extreme fear of one’s own death, the process of dying, the afterlife, or the death of a loved one: The data may show a negative correlation of death anxiety and religiosity.
There wasn’t a single negative event that triggered my existential death anxiety—just the intrusive, obsessive thought of not existing.
The data may show a negative correlation of death anxiety and religiosity.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of death anxiety1
First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences
The religious narrative resolved our death anxiety through faith in an afterlife.
From The Daily Beast
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