pedophilia
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
pedophilia (American spelling)
- Sexual attraction to children by adults.
- Synonyms: childlove, pederosis
- Antonyms: teleiophilia, pedophobia
- cot en
- Hypernyms: paraphilia
- 2007, Margaret Mary Wright, Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases, page 122:
- As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.
- 2009, Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, Abnormal Psychology:
- 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.
- (psychiatry) pedophilic disorder (American Psychiatric Association)
- ephebophilia
- pederasty
- pedophile/paedophile, pedophilic/paedophilic
- hebephilia
- korephilia
- pederast
- pedosexuality
- French: pédophilie
- German: Pädophilie
- Italian: pedofilia
- Portuguese: pedofilia
- Russian: педофили́я
- Spanish: pedofilia
- Russian: педофили́я
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