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Necrophilia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Obsessive fascination with death and corpses.

n. Erotic attraction to or sexual contact with corpses.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A pathological attraction to dead bodies, especially sexual attraction or intercourse.

n. Pathological fascination with death.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies

Word Usage

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Antonym

necrophobia

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

cacoethes mania passion

Form

necrophiliac

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

necrophilism necrophily

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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