necromania

British  

/ ˌnɛkrəʊˈmeɪnɪə /

noun

1. another word for necrophilia

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Other Word Forms

• necromaniac noun

Example Sentences

That’s the glib message of Jonas Åkerlund’s “Lords of Chaos,” a loose, thin and bloody romp through the early days of the grisly rock subculture known as Norwegian black metal, which emerged in the late ’80s as a doubling down on black metal’s shock tactics — Satanism, misanthropy, necromania — but which also fed a nascent criminality in its less psychologically stable adherents.

From Los Angeles Times

The elder brother, a long-legged stutterer whom they called Aristón in jest, was the most funereal fellow on the planet; he suffered from acute necromania; anything connected with coffins, corpses, wakes and candles roused his enthusiasm.

From Project Gutenberg