different between pederast vs pedophilia

English

Alternative forms

• paederast (British)
• pæderast (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from French pédéraste, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (paiderast?s, “lover of boys”), from ???? (paîs, “boy”) and ??????? (erast?s, “lover”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?d.?.?æst/, /?pi.d?.?æst/
• enPR: p?d'?-r?st'

Noun

pederast (plural pederasts)

1. A man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy; a practitioner of pederasty.

   Synonym: (literary, archaic) Uranian

Usage notes

• The term pederast has sometimes been incorrectly used to describe men sexually involved with prepubescent girls, or child-rapists who do not have any ongoing relationship with the child. For an adult fixated on only sexual involvement with prepubescent children, or for heterosexual child-eroticism, pedophile is used instead. However, it is important to note that pedophile and pedophilia refer only to the desire, not to the act, so pedophiles may not have been sexually involved with children. The female equivalent is a korephile.

Coordinate terms

• korephile

Related terms

• pederasty
• pederastic

Translations

Anagrams

• pad-trees, pre-dates, predates, readepts, repasted, trapesed

Albanian

Alternative forms

• peder, pederë.

Noun

pederast m

1. pederast

Related terms

• pederasti
• pederastik

Czech

Noun

pederast m

1. pederast

Related terms

• pederastie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pe?de?rast

Noun

pederast m (plural pederasten, diminutive pederastje n)

1. pederast

Related terms

• pederastie
• pederastisch

Romanian

Etymology

From French pédéraste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?d??rast]

Noun

pederast m (plural pedera?ti)

1. pederast

Declension

Related terms

• pederastic
• pederastie

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ped?rast/
• Hyphenation: pe?de?rast

Noun

pedèrast m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. pederast

Declension

Adjective

péderast (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. (derogatory) characteristic of a homosexual; faggy, gay, gayish, homo

Declension

Related terms

• péder
• pederàstija
• pédersk?
• péderstvo

English

Alternative forms

• paedophilia (British)
• pædophilia (British, dated)

Etymology

An adaptation of the German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- +? -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek ?????????? (paidophilía, “love of children”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pi?.d??f?.li.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?pe.d??f?.li.?/

  Rhymes: -?li?

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.d??fi.li.?/
• Hyphenation: ped?o?phil?i?a

Noun

pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias) (American spelling)

1. Sexual attraction to children by adults.

   Synonyms: (euphemistic) childlove, pederosis

   Antonyms: teleiophilia, pedophobia

   Coordinate terms: hebephilia, ephebophilia, korephilia, teleiophilia

   Hypernym: paraphilia

   • 2007, Margaret Mary Wright, Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases, page 122:

     As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.

   • 2009, Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, Abnormal Psychology:

     Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pedophilia.
2. Sexual activity between adults and children.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pedophilia.

Usage notes

• Many psychologists recommend against using the term pedophilia to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (i.e., pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children. Furthermore, psychological texts define pedophilia as a primary or exclusive attraction towards specifically prepubescent children; primary attraction towards pubescent children is known as hebephilia and towards post-pubescent adolescents as ephebophilia. See Wikipedia for more information.

Synonyms

• (psychiatry): pedophilic disorder (“a clinical diagnostic classification”) (American Psychiatric Association)

Derived terms

• pedophile

Related terms

Translations

References