The subject has its weak side too; it is morbid and somewhat sentimental at the end, but the fundamental emotion is sincere. Opium-smoking is a vice not only deleterious in itself, but one indulged in merely to satisfy a morbid craving.
Other phrases, of a morbid tenderness, seem like music whispering consolation for unavowed sorrows and irremediable despair. One symptom of Tchaikovskys condition was the morbid sensibility of his artistic temperament. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for morbid on Thesaurus. See antonyms for morbid on Thesaurus. Older people have had more time to learn about dangerous situations and so they might be less curious about them. Similarly, the kinds of morbid curiosity you may be interested in are split along demographic lines.
This indicates why true crime is such a wildly popular medium among female audiences — we're trying to arm ourselves. As well as learning from morbid media how to protect ourselves, how to prepare , we also use them to distract ourselves from real-world anxieties. When done right, screen horror is shocking by design and has the unique ability to yank us by the collar out of any potential personal hell and into an imagined one much more efficiently than, say, a laughter-track sitcom that pootles along pleasantly in the living room periphery.
So they might help us stop ruminating or worrying about other things in our lives better than other shows. And when the show is over, the anxiety will often subside. The term derives from a recent study which took place in a haunted house, no less , which found that horror fans can be classified into three main groups. Firstly, adrenaline junkies, who desire "novel, complex, and intense experiences".
They try and up-regulate their arousal to get the most out of it, participating in watching a horror movie or attending a haunted house simply for the thrill, in the same way someone might want to go skydiving. White knucklers are people who genuinely don't enjoy being scared, try and down-regulate their arousal but participate anyway, for some reason. And dark copers are a newly identified typology made up of morbidly curious people who use horror to cope with anxiety.
What makes this group distinct is that they tend to use horror as a way to cope with various aspects of their lives.
The extent to which 'dark coping' can actually benefit the mentality of those who instinctively use it is less understood, and murkier. But in a study he did discover a nugget of revealing evidence, finding that "horror fans and morbidly curious people were more psychologically resilient during the COVID pandemic," though more work is needed to understand why.
The way we view death more generally is changing for the better. A recent report from British funeral home Farewill studied changing attitudes to death over the last two years. Perhaps if we rebrand morbid curiosity as 'morbid openness', things might start to look a bit brighter. Meet Grammar Coach. Oh no, you just received another horrid sweater from your relatives. Deck your vocabulary with the best ways to say "Thanks" that make everyone feel good. How to use thoughtful in a sentence.
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