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paedophilephobia

paedophilephobia 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 paedophilephobia

From paedophile + -phobia.

Questions about paedophilephobia

What is paedophilephobia the commonwealth form of?
Paedophilephobia is the commonwealth form of pedophilophobia.

Words near paedophilephobia in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paedophilephobia (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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