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adjectivenecrophilous (not comparable)
- not comparableThriving on death or on dead things.
There are many factors, personal and cultural, that are responsible for this unevenness; in addition, some necrophilous traits may not be discovered in people who hide them successfully.
1992, Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, page 408
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