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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Erotic literature or art.
  2. n. Sexual images or objects.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire

Etymologies

  1. From neuter plural of Latin eroticus ("amatory"), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erotikos). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek erōtika, from neuter pl. of erōtikos, erotic; see erotic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • 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

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‘erotica’ has been looked up 1852 times, added to 14 lists, commented on 4 times, and has a Scrabble score of 9.