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death anxiety

[ deth ang-zahy-i-tee ]

noun

, Psychiatry.
  1. 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.

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