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paederosis

paederosis is the alternative form of pederosis.

Meaning of pederosis

Noun

pederosis (uncountable)

  1. (rare) sexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia
    • I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and how to do it, without impinging on a child's chastity; after all, I had had some experience in my life of pederosis; had visually possessed dappled nymphets in parks; had wedged my wary and bestial way into the hottest, most crowded corner of a city bus full...1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Origin of paederosis

From paedo- (“child”) + eros (“love”) + -osis (“disease, condition”).

Questions about paederosis

What is paederosis the alternative form of?
Paederosis is the alternative form of pederosis.

Words near paederosis in the dictionary

  1. paederastic
  2. paederasts
  3. paederasty
  4. paederine
  5. paederines
  6. paederosis
  7. paederotic
  8. paedeutic
  9. paedeutics
  10. paediatic
  11. paediatric

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