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I have tried all afternoon to LIU without success - is there single word to describe a (pardon the pun) morbid fascination with death? All the sources I come across point to necrophilia or similar, but these words all imply a sexual obsession that is not what I am looking for. It's more the sort of fascination with, and being entertained by, all things morbid that I am trying to describe. Is there a word for it?
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Reading just the strap of your post, I would have picked morbidity, but presumably you are looking for something else?
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Mortaphilia?And I thought that's what the barman asked, just before you slide off the stool
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> morbidity
I would have gone for this too. I that the expression "morbid fascination with death" gets countless hits on a google search, so must be a popular phrase.
I suppose the problem with morbidity is that it is also a medical term to do with incidence of disease and is used increasingly by the press as we all become hooked on that other modern preocupation "morbid fascination with healthcare".
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morbid fascinations? man, have you ever come to the right place...
taphophile - one who loves cemetaries and funerals (see Harold, in "Harold and Maude") thanatopsis - a meditation upon death
oh, and lest I forget... witzelsucht - a morbid tendency to pun, make poor jokes, and tell pointless stories (hi teD!!)
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> Mortaphilia?
>And I thought that's what the barman asked, just before you slide off the stool
I wish I'd said that!!
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Wish it was being said to me right now.
I could reply, "Hearse to you"
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>I could reply, "Hearse to you"
Just don't cry in my bier! Such a grave development that would be.
Ted goes away, coffin in his windingsheet
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