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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A festival in honor of Aphrodite or Venus periodically celebrated in various localities of ancient Greece. Those of Paphos in Cyprus, of Cythera, and of Corinth were the most famous.
  • noun Eroticism.
  • noun The sexual act.

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  • noun a state of sexual desire.

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  • noun a desire for heterosexual intimacy

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