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”).
- borrowed from Pädophilie
Definitions
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, [...]
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
- neighborpedophile
- neighborpedophiliac
- neighborpedophilic
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