gerontophiladj.
/dʒəˈrɒntəʊfɪl/ Loving or favouring old people, esp. old men; desiring sexual relations with old people. So as n.
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gerontophil1925
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [adjective] > gerontophilia
gerontophilic1945
gerontophil1963
1925 J. Joyce Fragm. Unpubl. Work in Criterion July 503 Speaking anent Tiberias and other incestuish salacities among gerontophils.
1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 35/1 The English..are notoriously gerontophil, and the surest road to success for a writer or a painter..is to survive to a venerable age.
1965 Listener 25 Nov. 869/1 Robin, one of those gerontophil types described by Proust as being so fortunately provided by Nature for the exclusive gratification of old men.
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gerontoˈphilia n.
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gerontophilia1918
gerontophilism1959
gerontophily1964
1918 E. Jones Papers on Psycho-anal. (ed. 2) xxxviii. 655 Some of the resultants of the ‘grand-father-complex’ may now be mentioned. The most striking is the tendency to gerontophilia—i.e., a special fondness for old people.
1937 M. Hirschfeld Sexual Anomalies ii. v. 90 The third category of psycho-sexual infantilism, in which the individual seeks the object of his desire..among older people (gerontophilia).
1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon v. 113 It's not that I suspect you of gerontophilia.
gerontoˈphilic adj.
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gerontophilic1945
gerontophil1963
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. vii. 162 Among Julia's friends there was a kind of gerontophilic snobbery; young men were held to be gauche and pimply.
geronˈtophilism n.
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gerontophilia1918
gerontophilism1959
gerontophily1964
1959 Listener 23 July 146/3 She seems to share the gerontophilism which Mlle Sagan has made so popular.
geronˈtophily n.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > gerontophilia
gerontophilia1918
gerontophilism1959
gerontophily1964
1964 Listener 15 Oct. 603/1 Sado-masochism, gerontophily, a whiff of incest.
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