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Definition of Necrophilism
1. Noun. An irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies.
Definition of Necrophilism
1. Noun. (alternative name of necrophilia) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Necrophilism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necrophilism
Literary usage of Necrophilism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1919)
"Oscar Wilde thought France might accept a glorification of necrophilism and wrote
his delectable book in French. France would have none of it, ..."
2. Senescence, the Last Half of Life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"CHAPTER IX THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH The attitude of infancy and youth toward death
as recapitulating that of the race—Suicide—The death-wish—necrophilism—The ..."
3. A Second Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1917)
"Oscar Wilde thought France might accept a glorification of necrophilism and wrote
his delectable book in French. France would have none of it, ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"This was on the one hand allied with a necrophilism arising from the aforementioned
... He has intense sexual desire for the corpse of Jesus (necrophilism). ..."
5. Studies in the Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis (1913)
"AF Browne also has an interesting article on "necrophilism" (Journal of Mental
Science, Jan., 1875) which he regards as atavistic. ..."
6. Crime, Habit Or Disease?: A Question of Sex from the Standpoint of Psycho by William Held (1905)
"necrophilism may degenerate into cannibalism when the patient becomes so wildly
effected as to eat parts of the dead body. ..."
7. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"necrophilism, an unnatural and revolting ¡ove or appetite for the dead which has
... The most extraordinary exhibition of necrophilism is where individuals, ..."
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