pedophilia

noun
/ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/UK/ˌpe.dəˈfɪ.li.ə//ˌpɛ.dəˈfi.li.ə/US

Etymology

Adapted from German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- (“child”) + -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”).

  1. borrowed from Pädophilie

Definitions

  1. Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent…

    Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children.

    • As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.
    • Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]
  2. Sexual activity between adults and children

    Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.

    • Entire books have been written about the role of scandal in US politics (Garment, 1992). Offenses include smoking marijuana, hiring illegal aliens, plagiarizing, sexually harassing others, engaging in pedophilia, […]
    • It's quite another (a bad idea) to expect amateurs to figure out who is telling the truth about Iraq, or which priests have committed pedophilia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pedophilia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA