VLVL2 (9.5): "Thanatoid"

[Dave Monroe]

   "'What's a Thanatoid.  OK, it's actually short for
'Thanatoid personality.'  'Thanatoid' means 'like
death, only different.'
   "'Do you understand this?' Takeshi asked DL.
   "'Near as I can tell, they all live together, in
Thanatoid apratment buildings, or Thanatoid houses in
Thanatoid villages....'" (VL, Ch. 9, p. 170)


thanatoid (than·a·toid) (than¢[schwa]-toid) [thanato-
+ -oid]  resembling death.

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