Pedophobia (also paedophobia), noun can mean one of two things:
1. Fear (phobia) of children. Under this definition a pedophobic individual would avoid contacts with children or any act that reminds an of them.
2. Irrational hatered, discrimination, and criminalisation of pedophiles. Under this definition a pedophobic individual would actively seek procecution and persecution of anybody who is either a pedophile or a pedophilia advocate. This term is a neologism.
In both cases a person who has pedophobia is called a pedophobe.
1. John cannot come to the kindergarten, he is a pedophobe.
2. Active Christian Media propagates pedophobia.
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