necrophile
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɛkɹəʊ̆faɪl/
Noun edit
necrophile (plural necrophiles)
- (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.