eroticadj.n.
/ɛˈrɒtɪk/ A. adj.
Of or pertaining to the passion of love; concerned with or treating of love; amatory.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > of or relating to sexual love
amorousc1405
amatory1571
Venerean1575
amatorious1587
venerous1587
venereous1611
venerious1620
erotical1621
Anacreontic1640
erotic1668
gallant1673
un-Platonic1726
amatorian1779
pandemian1818
pandemica1822
genesial1848
aphrodisian1860
1668 P. M. To Author of Ephesian Matron sig. G2v, in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons That Erotic passion is allowed by all learned men to be a species of Melancholy.
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 69 These modes had other..dependent on them; such as the Erotic, or amorous.
1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe (1846) I. xvi. 448 The lyric and erotic poets of his country.
1850 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (ed. 2) I. 158 Arising from these erotic dreams, he suspended at her shrine his secular weapons.
1865 W. F. Hook Lives Archbps. III. i. §9. 101 The common language of civility, as addressed to a lady, was erotic.
B. n.
a. An erotic or amatory poem.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > erotic poem
Anacreontic1603
erotic1858
1858 Sat. Rev. 5 266/1 A lecture on popular erotics from the authoress.
1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 150 Religious erotics are something worse than an offence against taste.
b. [after nouns in -ic suffix, representing Greek -ικὴ (τέχνη).] A ‘doctrine’ or ‘science’ of love.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > doctrine or science of love
erotic1872
erotology1886
1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl III. viii. 193 Instruction in the famous science of erotic.
1888 Athenæum 18 Aug. 214/2 A strange doctrine of ‘spiritual wives’—a mystical erotic.
1888 Athenæum 18 Aug. 215/1 The sublime erotic, free from all passional instincts.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > of or relating to sexual love
amorousc1405
amatory1571
Venerean1575
amatorious1587
venerous1587
venereous1611
venerious1620
erotical1621
Anacreontic1640
erotic1668
gallant1673
un-Platonic1726
amatorian1779
pandemian1818
pandemica1822
genesial1848
aphrodisian1860
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. i. ii. 543 Jason Pratensis..writes copiously of this Eroticall loue.
eˈrotically adv. in an erotic manner; in an erotic sense.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adverb]
provokingly1615
erotically1882
provocatively1882
sexily1929
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 398 Others [understand it (Song of Solomon)] erotically.
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