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 of death or corpses

Etymologies

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necro- + -phobia

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