necrophile

necrophile

English

Etymology

From necro- +‎ -phile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛkɹəʊ̆faɪl/

Noun

necrophile (plural necrophiles)

1. (sexuality) One who is subject to necrophilia.
   • 1903, Guy de Maupassant, M. Walter Dunne (translator), 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

Finnish: nekrofiili (fi) French: nécrophile (fr) m or f Italian: necrofilo m Russian: некрофи́л (ru) m (nekrofíl) Serbo-Croatian: nekròfīl (sh) m, некро̀фӣл m Swedish: nekrofil (sv) c Turkish: nekrofil (tr), ölü sevici (tr)