"morbid attraction toward the dead," 1892, in Chaddock's translation of Krafft-Ebbing's "Psychopathia Sexualis," from necro- "death, corpse" + -philia. Related: Necrophilism (1864); necrophilous; necrophiliac.
necrolatry
necrology
necromancer
necromancy
necrophagous
necrophilia
necrophobia
necropolis
necropsy
necrosis
necrotomy
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