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thanatosis

thanatosis noun: the act of feigning death.

Noun

thanatosis (usually uncountable, plural thanatoses)

  1. (usually) The act of feigning death.
    Synonyms:
    apparent death
  2. (usually) The death of part of an organism.
    Synonyms:
    necrosis

thanatosis meaning in Tamil

thanatosis in Tamil

போலி, அழுகல், மரித்தல்

Synonyms of thanatosis

Forms of thanatosis

pluralthanatoses

Origin of thanatosis

From New Latin; by surface analysis, thanato- + -osis.

Questions about thanatosis

What does thanatosis mean?
Thanatosis means the act of feigning death.
What is thanatosis in Tamil?
Thanatosis in Tamil is போலி, அழுகல், மரித்தல். See Thanatosis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is thanatosis?
Thanatosis is a noun.
What is the plural of thanatosis?
The plural of thanatosis is thanatoses.

Words near thanatosis in the dictionary

  1. thanatopraxy
  2. thanatopses
  3. thanatopsis
  4. Thanatos
  5. thanatoses
  6. thanatosis
  7. thanatotic
  8. thanatourism
  9. thandai
  10. thandar
  11. thandars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thanatosis (page history and authors); thanatosis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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