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, 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.

2. (by extension) One who engages in sexual acts with corpses.

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)