Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

necrogamy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: necrogamy
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Posthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"These accounts seem to imply, indeed to depict, necrogamy (copulation with a corpse) in the netherworld…"
"If you‘ve ever utilized the website Ancestry.com, you‘ve also gone to the Mormons for help. Family ancestry and genealogy are definitely their jam. When there‘s polygamy in your church history, big families happen. What I didn‘t realize is that something called necrogamy is also their jam. Yes, you read that correctly. Necrogamy. The process of marrying the dead."

Etymology

From necro- + -gamy.

Usage

Inflected Forms

necrogamies (plural)

Synonyms

ghost marriage posthumous marriage

Questions

What does necrogamy mean?: Posthumous marriage, a legal state where a deceased person is retroactively considered to have been married for legal purposes, such as inheritance.
Where does necrogamy come from?: From necro- + -gamy.

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