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gerontophil, a.|dʒəˈrɒntəʊfɪl|
[f. Gr. γεροντ-, γέρων old man + -o + -phil.]
Loving or favouring old people, esp. old men; desiring sexual relations with old people. So as n. So gerontoˈphilia; gerontoˈphilic a.; geronˈtophilism; geronˈtophily.
1918E. Jones Papers on Psycho-Analysis (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. 1937M. Hirschfeld Sex 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). 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 115 Speaking anent Tiberias and other incestuish salacities among gerontophils. 1945E. 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. 1959Listener 23 July 146/3 She seems to share the gerontophilism which Mlle Sagan has made so popular. 1963Times 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. 1964Listener 15 Oct. 603/1 Sado-masochism, gerontophily, a whiff of incest. 1965Ibid. 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. 1965F. Sargeson Memoirs of Peon v. 113 It's not that I suspect you of gerontophilia. |