Parthenophilia
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Sexual attraction towards girls in late adolescence. uncountable
"'Cyprus Avenue', his tale of adolescent torment and parthenophilia on the Beersbridge Road, captured the very sort of magical dislocation we felt as we pursued our pleasures and our exotic ideas on the normal streets, expressing ourselves in a black-through-white idiom, and we told each other who Madame George was, what street Van was looking into from an upstairs window."
Example
More examples"'Cyprus Avenue', his tale of adolescent torment and parthenophilia on the Beersbridge Road, captured the very sort of magical dislocation we felt as we pursued our pleasures and our exotic ideas on the normal streets, expressing ourselves in a black-through-white idiom, and we told each other who Madame George was, what street Van was looking into from an upstairs window."
Etymology
Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin, young woman”) and φιλία (philía, “(fraternal) love”)
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