Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Obsessive fascination with death and corpses.
- n. Erotic attraction to or sexual contact with corpses.
Wiktionary
- n. sexuality A pathological attraction to dead bodies, especially sexual attraction or intercourse.
- n. Pathological fascination with death.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
Etymologies
- From necro- (Ancient Greek νεκρός (nékros, "corpse, dead")) + -philia (Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, "affection")), after German Nekrophilie (in Krafft-Ebing 1887). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This category is for individuals whose sexual interests are directed primarily toward objects other than people of the opposite sex, toward sexual acts not usually associated with coitus, or toward coitus performed under bizarre circumstances as in necrophilia, pedophilia, sexual sadism, and fetishism.”
“How about a float focusing on brave humans risking their lives for lofty objectives, exploration by robots, NASA as an agency that helps save the home planet, and space commercialization to make human space travel a * real* 21st century enterprise, rather than phallic hardware and retro-landers that belie a certain necrophilia for Apollo?”
“Brought to you via ascetic_hedony's recent update and comment by cricketk ascetic_hedony: nothing says humour like cannibalism cricketk oh - I'd say necrophilia is pretty humourous.”
“... rather than phallic hardware and retro-landers that belie a certain necrophilia for Apollo?”
“The most disturbing and extreme form of necrophilia is necrophilia. )”
“Your Greek roots are correct, Mike, but the compound English word necrophilia doesn't refer to a fascination with death, it refers specifically to sex with corpses.”
“This game involved digging up buried pegs That's called "necrophilia" and "grave-robbing" where I live.”
The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: Double Indumbnity
“The statutory provisions for censorship in NZ have a two routes to censorship, the first being an objective list of obejectionable material such as necrophilia, child abuse, the second being a subjective "public injury" test.”
“This law made it an offence for an individual in future to possess material deemed as "extreme porn", described as images that depicted "explicit realistic extreme acts" - such as necrophilia, bestiality or acts that were life-threatening or likely to cause serious harm to intimate body parts - pornographic (produced for the purposes of sexual arousal), and "grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character".”
“What feels particularly familiar is the emotive language being used by those opposing Englaro's right to die - Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, the Vatican's spokesperson on "health issues" described the planned removal of feeding tubes as "monstrous and inhuman murder", while Church newspaper Avvenire accused the court of "necrophilia".”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘necrophilia’.
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probation, trekkie, wart, unemployed, fetish, suspended driver'..., felon, aerophagia, undies, debt collector, girlfriend, boyfriend and 272 more...
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dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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wakcy's Words
apocalypse, interlude, drome, absolution, atrocity, ruse, pristine, mason, reparable, deteriorate, pyramid, hipster and 283 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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necro-
relating to a corpse or death
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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-philia, -phily
denoting (esp. abnormal) fondness or inclination
pedophilia, spasmophilia, Anglophilia, Francophilia, bibliophilia, necrophilia, hemophilia, coprophilia
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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Love is a very strange thing
-philias
necrophilia, dendrophilia, androphilia, hemophilia, xenophilia, bibliophilia, biophilia, galeophilia, allophilia, coprophilia, acrotomophilia, apotemnophilia and 10 more...
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Naked Lunch List
necrophilia, coprophilia, defecate, vituperate, latah, lobotomy, succulent, immaculate concep..., cascade, rube, vigilante, eunuch and 27 more...
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A negation of all human qualities
These are all human things. Things us humans do. Not animals - those species we feel superior to.
jealousy, suicide, assassination, cannibalism, necrophilia, greed, torture
Tweets
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nuxiy "One more of these charming diversions of ours:
Necrophilia, huh? now theres a hobby for ya. Fucking a corpse. Takes a special kind of guy, dont you think?
But it happens, it happens. More than you might think. It happens among humans. Animals dont do that. Animals dont fuck their dead.
A rat will do alot of gross things, but he will not fuck a dead rat. It wouldnt even occur to him.
Only a human being would think: to fuck someone who just died.
We must be one of the most interesting species on the planet. And then we just wonder why UFOs just land and say: "Hello""
- George Carlin about necrophilia in Life is worth losing Mar 19, 2009
whichbe One possible result of a necromance. Jun 10, 2008
reesetee Stop, stop! You're killing me!
Wait.... Oct 13, 2007
sionnach a kind of paste used by embalmers to fill cracks in dead people Oct 13, 2007