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Necrophilia

//nɛkɹoʊˈfɪli.ə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pathological attraction to dead bodies. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies wordnet
  3. 3
    Sexual activity with corpses. countable, uncountable

    "A woman in Sweden has been accused of necrophilia after investigators found some 100 skeleton parts in her apartment."

  4. 4
    A pathological fascination with death. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From necro- (Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “corpse, dead”)) + -philia (Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “affection”)), after German Nekrophilie (in Krafft-Ebing 1887).

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