Meanings
nounnecrophile (plural necrophiles)
plural necrophiles
- lifestyleOne who is subject to necrophilia.
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.
1903, Guy de Maupassant, translated by M. Walter Dunne, A Tress of Hair - broadlyOne who engages in sexual acts with corpses.
Origin
Translations
Finnish nekrofiili
- nekrofiilione who is subject to necrophilia
French nécrophile
- nécrophileone who is subject to necrophilia
Italian necrofilo
- necrofiloone who is subject to necrophilia
Russian некрофи́л
- некрофи́л (nekrofíl)one who is subject to necrophilia
Swedish nekrofil
- nekrofilone who is subject to necrophilia
Turkish nekrofil, ölü sevici
- nekrofilone who is subject to necrophilia
- ölü sevicione who is subject to necrophilia
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