"pedophilia" meaning in English

See pedophilia in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/ [UK], /ˌpe.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/ [General-Australian], /ˌpɛ.dəˈfi.li.ə/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pedophilia.wav Forms: pedophilias [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪliə Etymology: Adapted from German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- (“child”) + -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Pädophilie}} German Pädophilie, {{con|en|pedo|philia|id1=child|t1=child}} pedo- (“child”) + -philia, {{cog|gkm|παιδοφιλία|t=love of children}} Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias)
  1. Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Synonyms: childlove [euphemistic], pederosis, pedophilic disorder [psychiatry, medicine, psychology, human-sciences, sciences] Translations ((medicine) sexual feeling or desire by adults or older adolescents towards prepubescent children): pedofilia (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-pedophilia-en-noun-WAX-I8pB Disambiguation of '(medicine) sexual feeling or desire by adults or older adolescents towards prepubescent children': 57 43
  2. (by extension, proscribed) Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation. Tags: US, broadly, countable, proscribed, uncountable Categories (topical): Pedophilia, Psychiatry Synonyms: pedosexuality Translations (sexual acts between adults and children): pedofilia (Finnish), педофили́я (pedofilíja) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-pedophilia-en-noun-FIhjBO6x Disambiguation of Pedophilia: 24 76 Disambiguation of Psychiatry: 39 61 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with pedo- (child), English terms suffixed with -philia, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Greenlandic translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Kyrgyz translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Maltese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tajik translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Urdu translations, Terms with Uzbek translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Yiddish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with pedo- (child): 29 71 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -philia: 32 68 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 26 74 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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: paedophilia [British], pædophilia [dated] Related terms: pedophile, pedophiliac, pedophilic Translations (sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children): պեդոֆիլիա (pedofilia) (Armenian), մանկապղծություն (mankapġcutʻyun) (Armenian), pedofiliya (Azerbaijani), педафілі́я (pjedafilíja) [feminine] (Belarusian), педофи́лия (pedofílija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 戀童癖 (Chinese Mandarin), 恋童癖 (liàntóngpǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), pedofilie [feminine] (Czech), pædofili [common-gender] (Danish), pedofilie [feminine] (Dutch), knapenliefde (english: pedophilia directed to boys) [feminine] (Dutch), pedofiilia (Estonian), pedofilia (Finnish), pédophilie [feminine] (French), pedofilia [feminine] (Galician), პედოფილია (ṗedopilia) (Georgian), Pädophilie [feminine] (German), παιδοφιλία (paidofilía) [feminine] (Greek), pedofili (Greenlandic), פֶּדוֹפִילְיָה (pedofílya) [feminine] (Hebrew), बालरति (bālarti) [masculine] (Hindi), pedofília (Hungarian), pedofilia (Indonesian), péidifilia [feminine] (Irish), pedofilia [feminine] (Italian), paidofilia [feminine] (Italian), 小児性愛 (shōniseiai) (alt: しょうにせいあい) (Japanese), 児童性愛 (jidōseiai) (alt: じどうせいあい) (Japanese), ペドフィリア (pedofiria) (Japanese), 幼児好き (yōjizuki) (alt: ようじずき) [euphemistic] (Japanese), педофилия (pedofiliä) (Kazakh), 소아성애증 (soaseong'aejeung) (alt: 小兒性愛症) (Korean), 어린이성애증 (eoriniseong'aejeung) (Korean), 페도필리아 (pedopillia) (Korean), педофилия (pedofiliya) (Kyrgyz), paedophilia (Latin), pedofilija [feminine] (Latvian), pedofilija [feminine] (Lithuanian), педофилија (pedofilija) [feminine] (Macedonian), pedofilia (Malay), pedofelija [feminine] (Maltese), pedofili [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), پدوفیلی (pedofili) (Persian), کودککامی (kudak-kâmi) (Persian), pedofilia [feminine] (Polish), pedofilia [feminine] (Portuguese), pedofilie [feminine] (Romanian), педофили́я (pedofilíja) [feminine] (Russian), педофѝлија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pedofìlija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pedofília [feminine] (Slovak), pedofilija [feminine] (Slovene), pedofilia [feminine] (Spanish), paidofilia [feminine] (Spanish), pedofili [common-gender] (Swedish), педофилия (pedofiliya) (Tajik), pedofili (Turkish), sübyancılık (Turkish), педофілі́я (pedofilíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), پیڈوفیلیا (peḍofelyā) (Urdu), pedofiliya (Uzbek), ái nhi (Vietnamese), פּעדאָפֿיליע (pedofilye) [feminine] (Yiddish)
Disambiguation of 'sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children': 51 49

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "pedophiliac"
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        },
        {
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        }
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          "word": "pederosis"
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            "medicine",
            "psychology",
            "human-sciences",
            "sciences"
          ],
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1998, Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 25:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide, 2nd edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 88:",
          "text": "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, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Todd Oppenheimer, “Read All about It -- but Where, Exactly?”, in SFGate, Hearst Communications:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "ipa": "/ˌpe.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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      "tags": [
        "British"
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      "word": "paedophilia"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "note": "تَحَرُّش جِنْسِيّ بِٱلأَطْفَال (taḥarruš jinsiyy bi-l-ʔaṭfāl, literally “child sexual harassment”)",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "pedofilia",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "պեդոֆիլիա"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "mankapġcutʻyun",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "մանկապղծություն"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofiliya"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjedafilíja",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педафілі́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pedofílija",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педофи́лия"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "戀童癖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "liàntóngpǐ",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "恋童癖"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilie"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pædofili"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "english": "pedophilia directed to boys",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "knapenliefde"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofiilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pédophilie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗedopilia",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "პედოფილია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pädophilie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "paidofilía",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "παιδοφιλία"
    },
    {
      "code": "kl",
      "lang": "Greenlandic",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofili"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "pedofílya",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "פֶּדוֹפִילְיָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "bālarti",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "बालरति"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofília"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "péidifilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "paidofilia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょうにせいあい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shōniseiai",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "小児性愛"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じどうせいあい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jidōseiai",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "児童性愛"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "pedofiria",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "ペドフィリア"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ようじずき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yōjizuki",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic"
      ],
      "word": "幼児好き"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "pedofiliä",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "педофилия"
    },
    {
      "alt": "小兒性愛症",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "soaseong'aejeung",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "소아성애증"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "eoriniseong'aejeung",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "어린이성애증"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "pedopillia",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "페도필리아"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "pedofiliya",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "педофилия"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "paedophilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilija"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilija"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pedofilija",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педофилија"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofelija"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofili"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "pedofili",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "پدوفیلی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kudak-kâmi",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "کودککامی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pedofilíja",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педофили́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педофѝлија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofìlija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofília"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "paidofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pedofili"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "pedofiliya",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "педофилия"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofili"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "sübyancılık"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pedofilíja",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педофілі́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "note": "کَم عُمْر بَچّوں سے جِنْسی میلان کی بِیماری (kam 'umr baccõ se jinsī melān kī bīmārī, literally “sexual orientation disorder with young children”)",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "peḍofelyā",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "پیڈوفیلیا"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "pedofiliya"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "word": "ái nhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "pedofilye",
      "sense": "sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "פּעדאָפֿיליע"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "(medicine) sexual feeling or desire by adults or older adolescents towards prepubescent children",
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sexual acts between adults and children",
      "word": "pedofilia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pedofilíja",
      "sense": "sexual acts between adults and children",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "педофили́я"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "pedophilia"
  ],
  "word": "pedophilia"
}

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