pedophilia, paedophilia
(noun) a sexual attraction to children
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias) (American spelling)
Sexual attraction to children by adults.
Synonyms: childlove (euphemistic), pederosis
Antonyms: teleiophilia, pedophobia
Coordinate terms: hebephilia, ephebophilia, korephilia, teleiophilia
Hypernym: paraphilia
Sexual activity between adults and children.
• Many psychologists recommend against using the term pedophilia to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (i.e, pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children. Furthermore, psychological texts define pedophilia as a primary or exclusive attraction towards specifically prepubescent children; primary attraction towards pubescent children is known as hebephilia and towards post-pubescent adolescents as ephebophilia. See Wikipedia for more information.
• (psychiatry): pedophilic disorder (“a clinical diagnostic classification”) (American Psychiatric Association)
Source: Wiktionary
2 April 2025
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