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Eroticism   /ərˈɑtɪsˌɪzəm/   Listen
Eroticism

noun
1.
A state of anticipation of sexuality.  Synonym: erotism.
2.
The arousal of feelings of sexual desire.  Synonyms: amativeness, amorousness, erotism, sexiness.






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"Eroticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Oriental tendency.[224] A poet of different calibre is Daumer, whose Hafis (Hamb. 1846) for a long time was regarded as a translation, whereas the poems of the collection are in reality original productions in Hafid's manner, just like Rueckert's Oestliche Rosen.[225] Their sensuous, passionate eroticism, however, is not a genuine Hafid quality, as we before have seen. The same criticism applies even much more forcibly to Schefer's Hafis in Hellas (Hamburg, 1853).[226] Special mention is due to the gifted, but unfortunate, Heinrich Leuthold, whose ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy

... restriction to a few safe themes. He swings from the detective story to the tale of the alien, from the "heart-interest" story to the narrative of "big business." When, as has happened recently, a magazine experimented with eroticism, and found it successful, the initiative of itseditor was felt to be worthy of ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby



Words linked to "Eroticism" :   sexual arousal, sexual desire, erotism, eros, sexiness, lubricity, prurience, amorousness, amativeness, lasciviousness, pruriency, carnality, concupiscence, physical attraction



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