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  1. erotic love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or concerning sexual love and desire; amatory.
  2. adj. Tending to arouse sexual desire.
  3. adj. Dominated by sexual love or desire.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or prompted by love; treating of love; amorous.
  2. n. An amorous composition or poem.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
  2. n. An amorous composition or poem.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the passion of love; treating of love; amatory.
  2. n. An amorous composition or poem.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing
  2. n. an erotic person

Etymologies

  1. From French érotique, from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikos, "related to love"), from ἔρως (erōs, "sexual love"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek erōtikos, from erōs, erōt-, sexual love. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. amatory
  1. amator
  1. sexy
  1. sensual
  1. arousing

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘erotic’

  1. sexy
  1. erotical

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. sensualist

same context (9)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. sexual
  1. sensual
  1. romantic
  1. disturb
  1. intimate
  1. poetic
  1. sexy
  1. intense
  1. compel

rhymes (17)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. antibiotic
  2. aquatic
  3. astronautic
  1. chaotic
  2. despotic
  3. exotic
  1. hypnotic
  2. idiotic
  3. narcotic
  1. neurotic
  2. patriotic
  3. psychotic
  1. quixotic
  2. robotic
  3. semiotic
  1. symbiotic
  2. unpatriotic

reverse dictionary (46)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. erotical
  2. eroticism
  3. lesbian
  4. erotism
  5. erotopathic
  6. ghazal
  7. aphrodisiac
  8. Basia
  9. erogenous
  1. erotically
  2. adeiladol
  3. Schnitzler
  4. necrophilia
  5. Beardsley
  6. kinky
  7. saraband
  8. zoophilia
  9. steamy
  1. neo-expressionism
  2. lap dance
  3. sexual
  4. tantra
  5. tantrism
  6. wet dream
  7. Swinburne
  8. eroticize
  9. erotize
  1. Bourgeois
  2. peeler
  3. sex up
  4. strip
  5. strip show
  6. striptease
  7. striptease artist
  8. stripteaser
  9. narcissism
  1. grind
  2. ecdysiast
  3. erotic
  4. flagellation
  5. Kama
  6. nude dancing
  7. pet
  8. stripper
  9. exotic dancer
  1. gallant

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  1. love
  1. impolite
  1. offensive
  1. use carefully
  1. informal
  1. sex

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  • CuriousJon My first and only exposure to the word LUSTALGIA happened in the mid-1960s in Los Angeles. A morning announcer used it in a now-forgotten sentence as I drove to graduate school at UCLA. The sense was nostalgic memories with lust as a theme.

    For the 'Free Love' movement then in near full-flower, I believe it is a word that ought to be more widely used, at least to ones self, with a glimmer of a smile and a memory flash!

    Probably best considered a noun or adjective: "The small group of friends from the 60s drifted into exchanging sweetly lustalgic memories of what had been, what might have been, what should have been, and, luckily, what never had been more than a memory of a private, still powerful fantasy." Sep 21, 2009

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