Synonyms for eroticism
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-rot-uh-siz-uh m |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈrɒt əˌsɪz əm |
Définition of eroticism
Origin :- 1881, from erotic + -ism.
- noun sexual excitement
- Eroticism is no more a vice than sexual anæsthesia is a virtue.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- There are yet other evidences of degeneration; witness the eroticism that is to be found in our literature.
- Extract from : « Religion and Lust » by James Weir
- He lacks passion, and he is never wanton; his eroticism is only Epicureanism.
- Extract from : « Anatole France » by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
- But that which he knew best of all was the history of eroticism.
- Extract from : « Idling in Italy » by Joseph Collins
- She was a person of strong common sense, and this mixture of religion and eroticism disgusted her.
- Extract from : « Beatrice » by H. Rider Haggard
- Vien it was who, suppressing the eroticism of Boucher, instigated the so-called classic revival founded on Græco-Roman ideals.
- Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright
- Eroticism taught and practised as a religious conviction—that is the essential and significant feature of the situation.
- Extract from : « Religion & Sex » by Chapman Cohen
- The sensuous and voluptuous libertine is enchanted by the eroticism of the “Roman Elegies.”
- Extract from : « German Problems and Personalities » by Charles Sarolea
- Thus delusion triumphs anew every time that eroticism and resistance struggle anew.
- Extract from : « Delusion and Dream » by Wilhelm Jensen
- The rejection of the eroticism, which dominates him, expresses itself there in his abhorrence of honeymoon travellers.
- Extract from : « Delusion and Dream » by Wilhelm Jensen
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