Word.ws English Dictionary

parthenophilia

parthenophilia noun: sexual attraction towards girls in late adolescence.

Noun

parthenophilia (uncountable)

  1. Sexual attraction towards girls in late adolescence.
    • 'Cyprus Avenue', his tale of adolescent torment and parthenophilia on the Beersbridge Road, captured the very sort of magical dislocation we felt as we pursued our pleasures and our exotic ideas on the normal streets, expressing ourselves in a black-through-white idiom, and we told each other who...1983, Robert Johnstone, Bill Kirk, Images of Belfast, page 58
    • Hebephilia (i.e., sexual attraction toward early pubescent body scheme meaning development stage with beginning growth of pubic hairs and breasts etc., i.e. Tanner stages 2 and 3 -- while the sexual preference for the late male pubescent body scheme is called "ephebophilia" and for the late female...2012, Klaus M. Beier, Kurt K. Loewit, Sexual Medicine in Clinical Practice, →ISBN, page 50

Origin of parthenophilia

Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin, young woman”) and φιλία (philía, “(fraternal) love”)

Words formed from parthenophilia

Questions about parthenophilia

What does parthenophilia mean?
Parthenophilia means sexual attraction towards girls in late adolescence.
What part of speech is parthenophilia?
Parthenophilia is a noun.

Words near parthenophilia in the dictionary

  1. Parthenon
  2. Parthenope
  3. Parthenopean
  4. parthenophile
  5. parthenophiles
  6. parthenophilia
  7. parthenophilic
  8. parthenophobia
  9. parthenopid
  10. parthenopids
  11. Parthenos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parthenophilia (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “parthenophilia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/parthenophilia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.