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nosophilia

nosophilia noun: sexual arousal from knowing that a partner has a terminal illness.

Noun

nosophilia (uncountable)

  1. Sexual arousal from knowing that a partner has a terminal illness

nosophilia meaning in Tamil

nosophilia in Tamil

நோய்ப்பாட்டாவல்

Origin of nosophilia

From noso- + -philia.

Questions about nosophilia

What does nosophilia mean?
Nosophilia means sexual arousal from knowing that a partner has a terminal illness.
What is nosophilia in Tamil?
Nosophilia in Tamil is நோய்ப்பாட்டாவல். See Nosophilia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nosophilia?
Nosophilia is a noun.

Words near nosophilia in the dictionary

  1. nosomania
  2. nosonomy
  3. nosoparasite
  4. nosoparasites
  5. nosophen
  6. nosophilia
  7. nosophobe
  8. nosophobes
  9. nosophobia
  10. nosophobias
  11. nosophobic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nosophilia (page history and authors); nosophilia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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