Thursday Day Word: Thanatopsis

Oct 24, 2024 05:18

Thanatopsis - noun.

Today's word, just in ahead of Halloween, is thanatopsis, which means

It's a combination of two Greek words, thanat(o) meaning death and opsis meaning sight or appearance. Thanatopsis is a view, contemplation or description of death. The most famous thanatopsis is a poem--hehe--of the same name by William Cullen Bryant.

noun, wordsmith: calzephyr77, t, greek

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