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  • adjective Not erotic.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ erotic

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Examples

  • “I love you too,” he shoots back, “And I mean that in a nonerotic, but powerful way.”

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  • “I love you too,” he shoots back, “And I mean that in a nonerotic, but powerful way.”

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  • It was so completely nonerotic, Myra felt an additional layer of relief.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: LESBIANS HAVING BABIES Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Lydia gave him a look in which he thought he could recognize a certain nonerotic tenderness, something not all that familiar to him even as a young boy with a widowed mother who had been in fashion in her era.

    The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008

  • Her friendship with Audrey was conspicuously nonerotic, to the degree that Molly eschewed all physical contact, even to the shaking of hands.

    The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008

  • The expressionists, finally, pitted their own brand of emotional but, characteristically, nonsensuous and nonerotic subjectivism against the imitative art of the nineteenth century.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ULRICH WEISSTEIN 1968

  • O.K., if it was very familiar sex with a very familiar partner, the kind that--truth be told--you probably have most of the time, your mind may have wandered off to such decidedly nonerotic matters as balancing your checkbook or planning your week.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • O.K., if it was very familiar sex with a very familiar partner, the kind that--truth be told--you probably have most of the time, your mind may have wandered off to such decidedly nonerotic matters as balancing your checkbook or planning your week.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • O.K., if it was very familiar sex with a very familiar partner, the kind that--truth be told--you probably have most of the time, your mind may have wandered off to such decidedly nonerotic matters as balancing your checkbook or planning your week.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2010

  • O.K., if it was very familiar sex with a very familiar partner, the kind that--truth be told--you probably have most of the time, your mind may have wandered off to such decidedly nonerotic matters as balancing your checkbook or planning your week.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2008

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