Usually means: Innate drive towards self-destruction.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. death instinct: Merriam-Webster
  2. death instinct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. death instinct: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. death instinct: Vocabulary.com
  5. death instinct: Wiktionary
  6. death instinct: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. death instinct: Dictionary.com
  8. Death instinct: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. death instinct: Rhymezone
  10. death instinct: FreeDictionary.org
  11. death instinct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. death instinct: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. death instinct: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. death instinct: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. death instinct: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. death instinct: Medical dictionary

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noun:  (psychoanalysis) Synonym of death drive

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