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Definition of Necrophilia
1. Noun. An irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies.
Definition of Necrophilia
1. Noun. (sexuality) A pathological attraction to dead bodies, especially sexual attraction or intercourse. ¹
2. Noun. Pathological fascination with death. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Necrophilia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Necrophilia
1. Necrophilism 1. A morbid fondness for being in the presence of dead bodies. 2. The impulse to have sexual contact, or the act of such contact, with a dead body, usually of males with female corpses. Origin: necro-+ G. Phileo, to love (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necrophilia
Literary usage of Necrophilia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"necrophilia.—The desire to have sexual congress with a dead body. Most of these
conditions stand for what was normal at a certain stage in development but ..."
2. Medicolegal Aspects of Moral Offenses by Léon Henri Thoinot, Arthur Wisswald Weysse (1911)
"BESTIALITY—necrophilia—NYMPHOMANIA— SATYRIASIS—EROTOMANIA. Bestiality. ...
necrophilia is not a morbid entity: some cases attributed to ..."
3. The Semi-insane and the Semi-responsible: (Demifous Et Demiresponsables) by Joseph Grasset (1907)
"This is not the case in bestiality and necrophilia' r Sexual Inversion As a
transition ... L'Affaire Ardisson," Contribution a 1'Ctude de la necrophilia, ..."
4. The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic by Alfred Adler (1917)
"... line guiding fiction and finds in necrophilia its highest expression.1 Another
... necrophilia. ..."
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