Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An abnormal fear of death or corpses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A morbid horror of dead bodies.
- noun Ail exaggerated fear of death; thanatophobia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
abnormal fear ofdeath orcorpses
Etymologies
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necro- + -phobia
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