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Answer for the clue "A desire for heterosexual intimacy ", 10 letters:
aphrodisia

Word definitions for aphrodisia in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A festival in celebration of Aphrodite celebrated throughout Greece and Cyprus.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Aphrodisia festival ( Ancient Greek : 'Αφροδίσια), an annual festival held in Ancient Greece in honor of the goddess Aphrodite Pandemos , ( Ancient Greek : Ἀφροδίτη Πάνδημος) took place in several Ancient Greek towns, but was especially important in ...

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n. a desire for heterosexual intimacy [ant: anaphrodisia ]

Usage examples of aphrodisia.

He could smell the faint muskiness of her, and it filled his head with an aphrodisia that made him stagger mentally.

His hair was carefully waved and gusts of Aphrodisia came from it and his suit.

There was the aphrodisia of her wealth and the ever-increasing influence she held in a male-dominated industry.

There is that marble where Papias of Aphrodisias has outlined a body tenderly nude, with the delicate resilience of narcissus.

One is the bas-relief signed by Antonianos of Aphrodisias and found some fifty years ago on the property of an agronomic institute, the Fundi Rustici, in the Committee Room of which it is now placed.