pedophilia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children.
Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.

Pronunciation

/ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pedophilia.wav /ˌpe.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/ /ˌpɛ.dəˈfi.li.ə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-NaomiAmethyst-paedophilia.wav

Word forms

pedophilia pedophilias paedophilia pædophilia

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Antonyms

teleiophilia

Related words

pedophile pedophiliac pedophilic

Translations

Abkhaz: ахәыҷыбзиабара Abkhaz: апедофилиа Armenian: պեդոֆիլիա Armenian: մանկապղծություն Azerbaijani: pedofiliya Belarusian: педафілі́я Bulgarian: педофи́лия Chinese Mandarin: 戀童癖 /恋童癖 Czech: pedofilie Danish: pædofili Dutch: pedofilie Dutch: knapenliefde Estonian: pedofiilia Finnish: pedofilia French: pédophilie Galician: pedofilia Georgian: პედოფილია German: Pädophilie Greek: παιδοφιλία Greenlandic: pedofili Hebrew: פֶּדוֹפִילְיָה Hungarian: pedofília Indonesian: pedofilia Irish: péidifilia Italian: pedofilia Italian: paidofilia Japanese: 小児性愛 Japanese: 児童性愛 Japanese: ペドフィリア Japanese: 幼児好き Kazakh: педофилия Korean: 소아성애증 Korean: 어린이성애증 Korean: 페도필리아 Kyrgyz: педофилия Latin: paedophilia Latvian: pedofilija Lithuanian: pedofilija Macedonian: педофилија Malay: pedofilia Maltese: pedofelija Norwegian Bokmål: pedofili Persian: پدوفیلی Persian: کودککامی Polish: pedofilia Portuguese: pedofilia Romanian: pedofilie Russian: педофили́я Serbo-Croatian: педофѝлија Serbo-Croatian: pedofìlija Slovak: pedofília

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