necrophobia

English

Etymology

necro- +‎ -phobia, by analogy with necrophilia.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

necrophobia (uncountable)

an abnormal fear of death or corpses
Funerals are ten times worse with necrophobia in addition to grief.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:necrophobia.

Translations

fear of death or corpses

Finnish: nekrofobia (fi)
French: nécrophobie (fr) f
Galician: necrofobia (gl)
Italian: necrofobia (it)
Japanese: ネクロフォビア (Nekurofobia)
Portuguese: necrofobia (pt)
Romanian: necrofobie (ro) f, frică de moarte f
Russian: некрофо́бия (ru) f (nekrofóbija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: некрофо̀бија f

Roman: nekrofòbija (sh) f
Spanish: necrofobia (es)

See also

thanatophobia

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