Crossword clues for eroticism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eroticism \E*rot"i*cism\, n. Erotic quality.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 the state of being erotic, or of being sexually aroused 2 sexual excitement, especially if abnormally persistent
WordNet
n. a state of anticipation of sexuality [syn: erotism]
the arousal of feelings of sexual desire [syn: amorousness, erotism, sexiness, amativeness]
Wikipedia
Eroticism (from the Greek ἔρως, eros—"desire") is a quality that causes sexual feelings, as well as a philosophical contemplation concerning the aesthetics of sexual desire, sensuality and romantic love. That quality may be found in any form of artwork, including painting, sculpture, photography, drama, film, music or literature. It may also be found in advertising. The term may also refer to a state of sexual arousal or anticipation of such – an insistent sexual impulse, desire, or pattern of thoughts.
As French novelist Honoré de Balzac stated, eroticism is dependent not just upon an individual's sexual morality, but also the culture and time in which an individual resides.
Usage examples of "eroticism".
In actual fact I had been fully preoccupied by eroticism and had done no work at all in the third class: my marks for the year were deplorable.
Or could it have been that there was no deliberate eroticism hidden here: the children merely felt awkward at a stranger watching them playing and so to make him go away they did something uncalled-for, but as innocent to their thinking as sticking out their tongues?
As he writes, Victor remarks that Russian writers such as Artsybashev are now producing work to rival the eroticism of the French.
The Breed males were exceptionally powerful, built for endurance, allowing them to hold up beneath the intense eroticism of the mating heat.
Her womb flexed as he stared down at her, the eroticism of watching his face flush, his eyes glitter with sexual hunger, filled her like a surge of electrical energy.
In his phenomenological examination of the theme of love, in exploring the border zone between eroticism and licit sexuality, between irony and nostalgia, Kundera succeeds brilliantly in revealing the inadmissible: all the essentially comical elements concealed in human sexuality!
This novel clearly suggests, it seems to me, that individualism is also deserting eroticism and that the donjuanesque journey itself is nearing its end.
Between these two paradigms of repetition there extends the border of donjuanesque eroticism whose furthest poles represent both its stake and its impossibility.
The novelist, better than a historian, philosopher or sociologist ever could, captures the twentieth-century drama of love and eroticism and, thus, our crisis of identity, showing both its seriousness and its incredibly comical aspect at the same time.
If betrayal is in fact the truth of eroticism, it takes on in these scenes its entire transgressive dimension in relation to straightforward sexuality.
Don Juan, as a denier of all univocality, tries desperately to remain on the border of sexual ambiguity without which eroticism can barely survive.
Don Juans of knowledge, Jan, Tomas and Rubens are without a doubt the most aware of the fine borderline separating eroticism and sexuality from laughter, the insidious trap of lyrical loves, both individual and collective.
His young wife has just given birth to a son and Bertlef awaits their arrival by staving off his impatience with a night of love with Ruzena who, as we already know, also represents for him a link between eroticism and procreation!
Brian Aldiss has astutely observed: repetitive, picaresque tales of nonstop adventure based on adolescent fantasies of constrained eroticism and unrestrained power.
Her Polynesian features were perfection, beauty and eroticism in one, yet her face was childlike, an eternal sweet sixteen.