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  • noun a love of funerals, cemeteries and the rituals of death

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Ancient Greek τάφος (taphos, "funeral rites”, “burial”, “funeral”, “wake”; “tomb”, “grave") + English -philia (from the Ancient Greek φιλία, philia, “love”, “fondness”)

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