necrophobia

English

Etymology

From necro- +‎ -phobia, by analogy with necrophilia.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

necrophobia (uncountable)

1. An abnormal fear of death or corpses

   Funerals are ten times worse with necrophobia in addition to grief.

Quotations

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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