necrophile

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English

Etymology

From necro- +‎ -phile.

Pronunciation

Noun

necrophile (plural necrophiles)

  1. (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
    • 1903, Guy de Maupassant, translated by M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair:
      He has seizures of erotic and macaberesque madness. He is a sort of necrophile. He has kept a journal in which he sets forth his disease with the utmost clearness.

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