thanatocracy (English, noun)
expansion: thanatocracy (plural thanatocracies)
Senses:
glosses: Nominal governance by a dead person, through posthumous holding of an official position of authority, or by popular veneration and lasting influence of a personal ideology; necrocracy.
glosses: The carrying out of mass and organized killing as an official policy of a state.
glosses: The enactment of policies held to lead, directly or indirectly, to death or an increased risk of death.
glosses: A culture in which rituals relating to the dead play a unique or important role.
glosses: Endemic stagnation or decay.
tags: figuratively
Forms:
form: thanatocracies
tags: plural