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What does necrophilia mean?

noun

1. an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
   • synonyms: necromania / necrophilism
   • more generic: cacoethes / mania / passion = an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

Alternative definition

noun

1. [sexuality] A pathological attraction to dead bodies, especially sexual attraction or intercourse.
   • antonym: necrophobia
   • synonym: necrophilism
2. Pathological fascination with death.
   • synonym: necrophily

Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions about necrophilia

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After We Die (2010)

The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver by Norman L Cantor

Defined broadly, necrophilia is a psychosexual disorder involving performance of erotic actions upon corpses.54 Culpable conduct includes fondling or manipulating breasts or genital areas, anal or vaginal intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, ...

Manual of psychiatry (1916)

by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff

Necrophilia is the rarest of all forms of sexual perversion. It consists in a ...

Erroneous Human Laws and the Social Evils (1921)

by Ladislaus R. Slominski

NECROPHILIA. Necrophilia is the perversion in Which the sex relation is practiced upon cadavers. It is incurable, and the only possible treatment is isolation.

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (2001)

by Glennys Howarth, Oliver Leaman

Necrophilia is a rare condition of being responsive to or entirely committed to sexual activity with a dead body for sexual arousal and orgasm to be possible. A condition that is mainly found in men, such people generally have no or little interest ...

The Encyclopedia of Crime Scene Investigation (2008)

by Michael Newton, John L. French

Necrophilia: Sexual fixation on corpses is not criminalized in all U.S. jurisdictions, although several states passed new statutes in the...

Encyclopedia of rape (2004)

by Merril D. Smith

Chinese men were also sodomized or forced to commit necrophilia or incest in front of laughing troops. The women, raised to prize chastity, fiercely resisted the Japanese. Women went into hiding, tried to pass as men, refused to bathe, and ...

The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary (1919)

Containing All the Words and Phrases Generally Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences, with Their Proper Pronunciation, Derivation, and Definition by George Milbry Gould, Richard John Ernst Scott

necrophilia (nek-ro-fil'-e-ah). 1. See necrophilism. 2. A longing for death. necrophilia (nek-roff'-il-izm) [necro-; to love). A form of sexual perversion in which dead bodies are violated; insane sexual desire for a ...

The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology (2010)

by Irving B. Weiner, W. Edward Craighead

For example, ero- tophonophilia, also called lust murder or sexual homicide, may involve necrophilia and extreme forms of sadism (Wright, Hatcher, & Willerick, 2006), as well as other paraphilias. SUGGESTEDREADINGS Kleinplatz, P. J. ...

A dictionary of new medical terms, a suppl. to 'An illustrated dictionary of medicine, biology and allied sciences'. (1905)

by George Milbry Gould

□ Necrophilia. (See Ulus. Diet.) 2. A longing for death. Necrophilous ( nek-rof'-ilus). Subsisting on dead matter. Necrosadism (nek-ro-sad'-hm) [w x/«ic , dead ...

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