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Psychiatry a conscious or unconscious desire for the death of another or for one's own death
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death wish

noun

  1. Psychiatry
    a. A desire for self-destruction, often accompanied by feelings of depression, hopelessness, and self-reproach.
    b. The desire, often unconscious, for the death of another person, such as a parent, toward whom one has unconscious hostility.
  2. A suicidal urge thought to drive certain people to put themselves consistently into dangerous situations.

Origin of death wish

Translation of German Todeswunsch

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Noun

(plural death wishes)

  1. (psychology) A desire, especially subconscious, for the death of oneself or of someone else.
Origin

A calque of German Todeswunsch.

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death wish - Medical Definition

n.

  1. Psychiatry
    1. A desire for self-destruction, often accompanied by feelings of depression, hopelessness, and self-reproach.
    2. The desire, often unconscious, for the death of another person, such as a parent, toward whom one has unconscious hostility.
  2. A suicidal urge thought to drive certain people to put themselves consistently into dangerous situations.
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