Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire.
Wiktionary
- n. Erotic literature or art.
- n. Sexual images or objects.
WordNet 3.0
- n. creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Etymologies
- From neuter plural of Latin eroticus ("amatory"), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erotikos). (Wiktionary)
- Greek erōtika, from neuter pl. of erōtikos, erotic; see erotic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Reading some good erotica is a great gauge for how sex can be written well – and it ticks all the boxes you mention.”
“Victorian erotica is pretty mindblowing, and I love the historical period.”
“All these characters are full and complete, they have real lives just like anyone else, except that – like a lot of regular fiction – they have something fantastic happen to them, and in erotica it tends to be of a sexual nature.”
“Damnation Books, publishers of horror, dark fantasy, paranormals, thrillers, science fiction and dark-themed erotica, is giving away a 2nd book this week for folks who join their reader's list.”
“Students of pornography can take heart, however, because more recent erotica is kept there thanks to its copyright library status.”
“The characters were forgettable, and I got the impression they were written to be that way because who wants real, three-dimensional characters in erotica?!”
“Anyway, it brings to mind the quote from Gloria Leonard – “The difference between porn and erotica is lighting”.”
“I think erotica is always sexier with characters you love - that way you care about them when they get their ‘thang’ on.”
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“Clearly marked erotica is the LEAST of your problems if you are a parent of a curious child.”
“As might be expected, the kimono features heavily in Japanese erotica from time immemorial, and gravure idols are …”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘erotica’.
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Words for Literary Erotica
A selection of words for the genre, Literary Erotica.
erotica, love, sex, heterosexual..., heterotica, romantic, romance..., humanism, humans, fiction, short st..., sexuality, vanill..., desire, longing, ..., husband, wife, lo..., men, women and 14 more...
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Erotic Fiction
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chefjulianin's Words
high, ice, recipe, bear, bare, lady, food, identity, sudden, spooky, away, cook and 142 more...
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franky's Words
formitastic, human resources, cocktail, gravatar, tequila, twitter, moloko, gmail, beeb, mp3, cover art, thumbnail and 184 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 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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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Heterotica
pertains to heterosexuals
heterotica, erotica, love, literary erotica, intercourse, coitus, copulation, heteronormative
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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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braggadocio
an addendum or Anhang to Prolagus's list 'The braggadocio recipe'
amoeba, angina, antenna, aria, arnica, audio, aurora, biro, bronco, bubo, cafe, calico and 88 more...
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Zissy's Favorite Words
jerkazoid, titillate, panties, delicious, ultimate, stimulates, wispy, velvety, erotica, banana, tiki, artsy fartsy and 19 more...
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VioletSin's Words
erotica, cuckold, camgirl, fetish, boots, pornography, cuck, concupiscent, minion, voluptuous, marmite, subservient and 9 more...
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Let's Talk About Sex
pansexual, bisexual, heterosexual, homosexual, intercourse, coitus, copulation, foreplay, orgasm, phallus, phallic, yonic and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for erotica.
bilby The photo pheed goes though a phamily phriendly philter. Feb 15, 2013
ValentineBonnaire On the visuals below -- why are there so many motorcycles instead of the human form? ie: The Nude in classical art.
Feb 15, 2013
ValentineBonnaire Wordnet 3.0 is wrong in my opinion above. Throughout history all artists have depicted the nude. Tremendous artistic value! xxoo! Feb 15, 2013
ValentineBonnaire In looking at the word map, none of these words really relate to Literary Erotica, per se. Some of them might be offshoots? Heterotica is of the sort one might find in D. H. Lawrence -- "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Sexuality between a man and a woman as shown in the novel. Feb 15, 2013