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English
Etymology
From necro- + -phile.
Pronunciation
Noun
necrophile (plural necrophiles)
- (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.
Translations
one who is subject to necrophilia