pedophilia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Adapted from German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- (“child”) + -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”).
Inflected forms:
form: pedophilias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paedophilia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: pædophilia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: 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, [...]
gloss: Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
countable
proscribed
uncountable
examples: Fifteen months later, a committee of the congregation found that he had sexually abused several boys within the congregation. […] The fact that Alger committed pedophilia at the age of thirty-four casts a shadow over his subsequent yearning for relationships with boys and young men, but there is no evidence of any later misconduct.
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.
Although the Holy See publicly expressed its rejection of sexual abuse and pedophilia and expressed its commitment to cooperate with civil authorities when cases of pedophile priests were found¹², there are no known cases of bishops or cardinals, being found responsible for abusing children or covering up for pedophilia in their parishes.
Related words: pedophile
pedophiliac
pedophilic
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: ахәыҷыбзиабара
roman: axʷəčʼəbzjabara
lang: Abkhaz
word: апедофилиа
roman: apʼedofilja
lang: Armenian
word: պեդոֆիլիա
roman: pedofilia
lang: Armenian
word: մանկապղծություն
roman: mankapġcutʻyun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: pedofiliya
lang: Belarusian
word: педафілі́я
roman: pjedafilíja
lang: Bulgarian
word: педофи́лия
roman: pedofílija
lang: Catalan
word: pedofília
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 戀童癖 /恋童癖
roman: liàntóngpǐ
lang: Czech
word: pedofilie
lang: Danish
word: pædofili
lang: Dutch
word: pedofilie
lang: Dutch
word: knapenliefde
lang: Estonian
word: pedofiilia
lang: Finnish
word: pedofilia
lang: French
word: pédophilie
lang: Galician
word: pedofilia
lang: Georgian
word: პედოფილია
roman: ṗedopilia
lang: German
word: Pädophilie
lang: Greek
word: παιδοφιλία
roman: paidofilía
lang: Greenlandic
word: pedofili
lang: Hebrew
word: פֶּדוֹפִילְיָה
roman: pedofílya
lang: Hungarian
word: pedofília
lang: Indonesian
word: pedofilia
lang: Irish
word: péidifilia
lang: Italian
word: pedofilia
lang: Italian
word: paidofilia
lang: Japanese
word: 小児性愛
roman: shōniseiai
lang: Japanese
word: 児童性愛
roman: jidōseiai
lang: Japanese
word: ペドフィリア
roman: pedofiria
lang: Japanese
word: 幼児好き
roman: yōjizuki
lang: Kazakh
word: педофилия
roman: pedofiliä
lang: Korean
word: 소아성애증
roman: soaseong'aejeung
lang: Korean
word: 어린이성애증
roman: eoriniseong'aejeung
lang: Korean
word: 페도필리아
roman: pedopillia
lang: Kyrgyz
word: педофилия
roman: pedofiliya
lang: Latin
word: paedophilia
lang: Latvian
word: pedofilija
lang: Lithuanian
word: pedofilija
lang: Macedonian
word: педофилија
roman: pedofilija
lang: Malay
word: pedofilia
lang: Maltese
word: pedofelija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: pedofili
lang: Persian
word: پدوفیلی
roman: pedofili
lang: Persian
word: کودککامی
roman: kudak-kâmi
lang: Polish
word: pedofilia
lang: Portuguese
word: pedofilia
lang: Romanian
word: pedofilie
lang: Russian
word: педофили́я
roman: pedofilíja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: педофѝлија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pedofìlija
lang: Slovak
word: pedofília
lang: Slovene
word: pedofilija
lang: Spanish
word: pedofilia
lang: Spanish
word: paidofilia
lang: Swedish
word: pedofili
lang: Tajik
word: педофилия
roman: pedofiliya
lang: Turkish
word: pedofili
lang: Turkish
word: sübyancılık
lang: Ukrainian
word: педофілі́я
roman: pedofilíja
lang: Urdu
word: پیڈوفیلیا
roman: peḍofelyā
lang: Uzbek
word: pedofiliya
lang: Vietnamese
word: ái nhi
lang: Welsh
word: pedoffilia
lang: Yiddish
word: פּעדאָפֿיליע
roman: pedofilye