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paederasty

paederasty is the alternative spelling of pederasty.

Meaning of pederasty

Noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties)

  1. (US, usually) Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.
    • […] aber die Entwürdigung der Frauen rächte sich an den Männern und entwürdigte auch sie, bis sie versanken in die Widerwärtigkeit der Knabenliebe und ihre Götter entwürdigten wie sich selbst durch den Mythus von Ganymed.1962 [1891, 1884], Friedrich Engels, “II. Die Familie”, in Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staats (Marx-Engels-Werke; 21), Dietz Verlag Berlin, page 67; English translation in...
    Antonyms:
    korephilia
  2. (US, archaic, usually) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.

Questions about paederasty

What is paederasty the alternative spelling of?
Paederasty is the alternative spelling of pederasty.

Words near paederasty in the dictionary

  1. paedagogy
  2. paedantry
  3. paederast
  4. paederastic
  5. paederasts
  6. paederasty
  7. paederine
  8. paederines
  9. paederosis
  10. paederotic
  11. paedeutic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paederasty (page history and authors); pederasty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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