Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Responsive or sensitive to sexual stimulation: erogenous zones.
- adj. Arousing sexual desire.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inducing erotic sensation; producing sexual desire.
Wiktionary
- adj. Sensitive to sexual arousal.
- adj. Causing sexual arousal, erotogenic.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. causing sexual excitement when stimulated.
- adj. relating to or arousing sexual excitement.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. sensitive to sexual stimulation
Etymologies
- Greek erōs, sexual love + -genous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Such zones or areas are called _erogenous zones_ -- the word erogenous means love-generating.”
“Above all gratifications originate through the adapted sensible excitation of so-called erogenous zones.”
“Societies generally choose by its obscure methods certain means of expression, typically regarding the body and perceived "erogenous" anatomical bits, to be inherently offensive and vulgar, and must conform to the societal norm.”
“Whether or not, like Woody Allen, you've experienced sex as the most fun you've ever had without laughing, some days I can't help but think that the online erogenous zone deserves another one of the comic's lines: "When it comes to sex, there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.”
The Huffington Post: Marian Salzman: The Online Erogenous Zone
“The personals come with titles such as "Aural Erotica," and explanations such as, "Let me blow your mind, your ultimate erogenous zone.”
“Our loaded test car was equipped with the company's excellent color navigation/media display built into the speedo, controlled with the Mini's new and strangely erogenous nub of a controller.”
The Wall Street Journal: Mini's Hot Coupe: Drive It—If Your Pal Buys One
“Will puts it like this: an attempt to "stroke every erogenous zone of the electorate.”
“But now we've turned this into this panorama in which -- in an interminable speech, every president, regardless of party, tries to stroke every erogenous zone in the electorate. . .”
“Option two: dive head-long into the messy erogenous, contentious muck of it all, recording the vagaries, obsessions, fears and fissures of life/desire/decay/art.”
“Additionally, the removal of the foreskin creates a secondary loss of sensitivity: not only has the most erogenous tissue of the male sexual organ been removed, but, as the man ages, the glans loses its mucosal covering, becomes dried out, and keratinizes over time.”
The Huffington Post: Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘erogenous’.
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Amber's list
This is a list of my favorite words, words that sound beautiful, or ones that have inspired me. I usually most enjoy words for which I can strongly associate pictures. I hope this list will also ...
clandestine, sumptuous, erogenous, operose, evanescent, panache, sparge, ludicrous, wholehearted, anodyne, eclat, legerdemain and 2 more...
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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akin
-gen
“that which produces,â€
(Origin:
F -gène
Gk. genés 'born, produced';
L. genus, 'kin')mutagen, mutagenesis, pathogen, pathogenesis, progeny, mitogen, parthenogenesis, transgene, mucinogen, myogenic, autogenic, endogenous and 83 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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-genous
producing; inducing; originating in
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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the smut-list
celibacy, rubber, coitus, foreplay, phallus, bukkake, cunnilingus, frottage, bugger, erotica, condom, booby and 63 more...
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dakinigrl's Words
wamsutta, weimaraner, labradoodle, pliable, shiny, pony, consternation, plethora, peruse, buffoonery, bastard, absinthe and 64 more...
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The Horizontal Hula
Words relating to everyone's favorite activity.
tup, frottage, wank, snog, callypigian, concupiscent, turgid, priapism, dalliance, conjugal, nee, coitus interruptus and 18 more...
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Naked Lunch List
necrophilia, coprophilia, defecate, vituperate, latah, lobotomy, succulent, immaculate concep..., cascade, rube, vigilante, eunuch and 27 more...
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