pederosis

English

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Etymology

pedo- (child) + eros (love) + -osis (disease, condition)

Noun

pederosis (uncountable)

  1. (rare) sexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
      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 of strap-hanging school children.

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