A person with such a sexual preference is a gerontophile. The word gerontophilia was coined in 1901 by psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. It derives from Greek: geron, meaning “old person” and philie, meaning “love”.

What do you call people who are attracted to older people?

Gerontophilia is an “erotic age orientation” in which one is most strongly aroused by the elderly, and so it is at the opposite end of the spectrum from pedophilia.

What is it called when a girl is attracted to older men?

A person with such a sexual preference is a gerontophile. The word gerontophilia was coined in 1901 by psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. It derives from Greek: geron, meaning old person and philie, meaning love. Gerontophilia can also be expressed with consenting elderly partners in a legal context.

What is the difference between old and elderly?

As adjectives the difference between elderly and old is that elderly is old; having lived for relatively many years while old is of an object, concept, relationship, etc, having existed for a relatively long period of time.