pederosis

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noun

sexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia

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nounpederosis (uncountable)

alternative paederosis

  1. rareuncountablesexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia
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    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.

    1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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Origin

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

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pederosis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pederosis

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