Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An abnormal fear of death or corpses.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A morbid horror of dead bodies.
- n. Ail exaggerated fear of death; thanatophobia.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.
Etymologies
- necro- + -phobia (Wiktionary)
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phrontistery - n
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Logolepsy
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φόβος
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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