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pederosis

pederosis noun: sexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia.

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

Forms of pederosis

alternative formpaederosis

Origin of pederosis

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

Questions about pederosis

What does pederosis mean?
Pederosis means sexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia.
What part of speech is pederosis?
Pederosis is a noun.

Words near pederosis in the dictionary

  1. pedereroes
  2. pedereros
  3. pederin
  4. pederins
  5. Pedernales
  6. pederosis
  7. pederotic
  8. Pedersen
  9. Pedersen device
  10. Pedersen devices
  11. Pedersens

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