Thanatophilia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The love of death. uncountable

    "What has obsessed the Irishman with thanatophilia — this love of death, decadence and decay?"

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"What has obsessed the Irishman with thanatophilia — this love of death, decadence and decay?"

Etymology

From thanato- + philia.

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