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paedophile-phobia

paedophile-phobia is the commonwealth form of pedophilophobia.

Meaning of pedophilophobia

Noun

pedophilophobia (uncountable)

  1. (US, rare) A fear or hatred of pedophiles.
    • Are pedophilophobia and homophobia left over feudal sentiments, thus linking our struggle, or is pedophilla in contradiction with both the gay/lesblan community and society at large? Before attempting to discuss these ideas it is necessary to get a handle on the emotional and practical meaning of...1984 February 14, Nigel Crawhall, “Pedophilia: Discussion sans hysteria”, in Sury Goldenberg, editor, The McGill Daily, volume 73, numbers 64 (Lesbian and Gay Special Issue), Montreal, Que.: Daily...
    Synonyms:
    pedophobia

Origin of paedophile-phobia

From paedophile + -phobia.

Questions about paedophile-phobia

What is paedophile-phobia the commonwealth form of?
Paedophile-phobia is the commonwealth form of pedophilophobia.

Words near paedophile-phobia in the dictionary

  1. paedophage
  2. paedophages
  3. paedophagous
  4. paedophagy
  5. paedophile
  6. paedophile-phobia
  7. paedophilephobia
  8. paedophiles
  9. paedophilia
  10. paedophiliac
  11. paedophiliacs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paedophile-phobia (page history and authors); pedophilophobia (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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