necrophilia
Desire for deceased
Necrophilia is sexual attraction to or sexual activity with corpses.
The term covers both the psychological fixation and the act itself, which is illegal in most jurisdictions.
The word occasionally appears in figurative contexts suggesting an unhealthy fascination with death or the past: The party's necrophilia for failed policies baffled observers.
Person attracted to corpses
- necrophilePerson attracted to corpses
- paraphiliaAtypical sexual interest disorder
- sadismPleasure from inflicting pain
- fetishismFixation on specific objects
Cessation of life
- corpseDeceased human body
- cadaverBody for dissection
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- morgueCorpse holding facility
mortuary · cemetery · grave · tomb · crypt · decomposition · embalming · autopsy
Absence of organization
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- psychopathyEmpathy-absent personality disorder
- devianceDeparture from accepted standards
perversion · dysfunction · psychosexual · psychiatric · abnormality · fixation · mania · psychosis
Not allowed
- abominationLoathsome, detestable thing
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- revulsionIntense physical disgust
disgust · depravity · sacrilege · profane · unmentionable · prohibition · scandal · outrage
necrophiliac
Person attracted to corpses
- necrophilePerson attracted to corpses
- paraphiliaAtypical sexual interest disorder
- sadismPleasure from inflicting pain
pedophilia · fetishism · vampirism · cannibalism · erotomania
death
Cessation of life
morgue · mortuary · cemetery · grave · tomb · crypt · decomposition · embalming · autopsy · funeral
disorder
Absence of organization
- compulsionIrresistible urge to act
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- psychopathyEmpathy-absent personality disorder
deviance · perversion · dysfunction · psychosexual · psychiatric · abnormality · fixation · mania · psychosis · syndrome
forbidden
Not allowed
- abominationLoathsome, detestable thing
- transgressionViolation of law or code
- stigmaMark of dishonor
revulsion · disgust · depravity · sacrilege · profane · unmentionable · prohibition · scandal · outrage · repugnance
- -phile wordsaudiophile, bibliophile, cinephile, francophile, technophile
- taboostaboo, incest, cannibalism, bestiality, pedophilia
- sexual disorderssexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, vaginismus, low libido
necrophilianecrophobia
Morbid dread of corpses
philanthropy, necropolis, necrosis, hemophilia, necrology, bibliophilia