necrophile

English

Etymology

From necro- +‎ -phile.

Pronunciation

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

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

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)

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