necrophilia

From necro- +‎ -philia. From necro- (Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “corpse, dead”)) + -philia (Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “affection”)), after German Nekrophilie (in Krafft-Ebing 1887).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌnɛkɹə(ʊ)ˈfɪlɪə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /nɛkɹoʊˈfɪli.ə/, /nɛkɹoʊˈfɪljə/
• Rhymes: -ɪliə
• Homophone: negrophilia

necrophilia (countable and uncountable, plural necrophilias)

1. (sexuality) A pathological attraction to dead bodies.
2. Sexual activity with corpses.
   • 2012 November 20, Associated Press, “Swedish woman charged with necrophilia after dozens of skeletal parts uncovered in home”, in Fox News‎^[1]:

     A woman in Sweden has been accused of necrophilia after investigators found some 100 skeleton parts in her apartment.

   • 2015 May 7, David Goldman, “Campus uproar over Yik Yak app after sex harassment, murder”, in CNN Business‎^[2]:

     Mann was a vocal leader in the group, and she was particularly outspoken about an incident in which the school's rugby team engaged in chants calling for violence against women -- including rape and necrophilia.

3. (medicine) A pathological fascination with death.

• necrophilism
• necrophily

• necrophobia

• arenophilic

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [nɛ.krɔˈpʰɪ.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ne.kroˈfiː.li.a]

necrophilia f (genitive necrophiliae); first declension

1. (rare) necrophilia

First-declension noun.