Associations to the word «Pedophile»

Wiktionary

PEDOPHILE, noun. (psychiatry) A person aged 16 years old or older who has a mental disorder that makes him primarily or exclusively sexually attracted toward prepubescent children. [from 20th c.]
PEDOPHILE, noun. (informal) An adult who is attracted to anybody below the age of consent.

Dictionary definition

PEDOPHILE, noun. An adult who is sexually attracted to children.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne