pedophilia

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/    美 /ˌpe.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/|/ˌpɛ.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/|/-ˈfi-/|/ˌpi-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children. US,countable,uncountable
    — As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.
  2. Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation. US,broadly,countable,proscribed,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

pedophilias plural paedophilia alternative,UK pædophilia alternative,dated

词汇关系

相关词
pedophile pedophiliac pedophilic

词源

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