- a person who is sexually excited by or attracted to dead bodies:The serial killer was also a known necrophiliac.
- 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.
- having or relating to a sexual attraction to dead bodies:He had a disturbing tendency toward necrophiliac fantasies.
- excited or fascinated by death or killing:I don't approve of that publisher's extreme, often necrophiliac and paranoid array of publications.