gerontophilia (adjective, gerontophilic): a paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which the partner must be parental or grandparental in age [from Greek, gerns, old age + -philia]. The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which a younger person must impersonate a parent or grandparent is paraphilic.2. The condition in which a young adult is responsive to and dependent on erotic/sexual activity with a much older partner in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm.

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