necrophiliac

American  

[nek-ruh-fil-ee-ak] / ˌnɛk rəˈfɪl iˌæk /

Also necrophilic

noun

1. Psychiatry. a person who is sexually excited by or attracted to dead bodies.

   The serial killer was also a known necrophiliac.

2. a person who is excited or fascinated by death or killing.

   Those who embrace violence, whether in the form of acts of terrorism or acts of war, are necrophiliacs.

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adjective

1. Psychiatry. having or relating to a sexual attraction to dead bodies.

   He had a disturbing tendency toward necrophiliac fantasies.

2. excited or fascinated by death or killing.

   I don't approve of that publisher's extreme, often necrophiliac and paranoid array of publications.

Etymology

Origin of necrophiliac

necrophili(a) ( def. ) + -ac ( def. )

Example Sentences

New York Times Film critic Manohla Dargis wrote: “Given all the indignities and horrors that Marilyn Monroe endured during her 36 years, it is a relief that she didn’t have to suffer through the vulgarities of ‘Blonde,’ the latest necrophiliac entertainment to exploit her.”

From Reuters

It’s quite a vision of Eros and Thanatos in one beautiful necrophiliac package.

From New York Times

Once she spots the necrophiliac thread running through our culture — from “Twin Peaks” to “True Detective,” and including every procedural ever made — she can’t stop seeing it, can’t stop thinking about what it would be like, as a girl who’s alive and kicking, to occupy so much central, privileged space.

From New York Times

Its follow-up, 2011’s WE, in which Andrea Riseborough played Wallis Simpson, was also critically panned, with Bradshaw describing it as “one long humourless and necrophiliac swoon at the Windsors’ supposed tragi-romantic glamour”.

From The Guardian

Related: Nicolas Winding Refn: society has become necrophiliac as the internet merges death and beauty What Refn has done in The Neon Demon, however, is to wholly demote the focus offered to his male characters.

From The Guardian