ghoulismn.
/ˈɡuːlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɡuˌlɪzəm/ The habits or behaviour of a ghoul; (figurative) excessive fascination with death; ghoulishness.
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1841 Foreign Q. Rev. Oct. 62 This apostle of ghoulism set to work forthwith to convert the unbelieving baron, in the following harangue.
1881 Harper's Mag. Dec. 114/1 In the chronicles of the time we find many reports of cannibalism, and even of ghoulism, the horrid accompaniments of a season of starvation.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ii. 32 Ghoulism. When children are about ten years old they enter a period in which the outward material facts about death seem extraordinarily funny.
2005 Times (Nexis) 15 Apr. 19 The culture of death meant we all had to suffer grim hourly bulletins tracing the Pope's physical decay... Light relief from this globalised ghoulism is hard to find.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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