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gerontophiles

gerontophiles is the plural of gerontophile.

Meaning of gerontophile

Noun

gerontophile (plural gerontophiles)

  1. A person sexually attracted to elderly men.
    • According to the age of the attracting person homosexuals are divisible into ephebophiles (lovers of youths, 14-21), androphiles (grown men up to the period of old age), gerontophiles (lovers of the aged) and pedophiles (lovers of small boys) .. corresponding divisions in women are parthenophiles...1914, L. Pierce Clark, “A critical digest of some of the newer work upon homosexuality in man and woman”, in State Hospital Bulletin, volume VII, New York State Hospital Commission, page 352
  2. A person with primary or exclusive sexual attraction towards the elderly.

Questions about gerontophiles

What is gerontophiles the plural of?
Gerontophiles is the plural of gerontophile.

Words near gerontophiles in the dictionary

  1. gerontomorphosis
  2. gerontonym
  3. gerontonyms
  4. gerontophagy
  5. gerontophile
  6. gerontophiles
  7. gerontophilia
  8. gerontophiliac
  9. gerontophiliacs
  10. gerontophilic
  11. gerontophobe

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