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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quality of being erotic or being represented as erotic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being erotic; undue prominence of sexuality or the sexual emotions; in pathology, excessive sexual desires.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Erotic quality.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the state of being erotic, or of being sexually aroused
  • noun sexual excitement, especially if abnormally persistent

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
  • noun a state of anticipation of sexuality

Etymologies

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erotic +‎ -ism

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