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-philia

 suffix
     
-philia [in nouns]
1 technical a tendency to feel sexually attracted in a way that is not approved of or not normal:
necrophilia (=a sexual attraction to dead bodies)
2 a love of something:
Francophilia (=a love of French things)
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