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<psychiatry> 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)
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