variants
or less commonly erotical
1
: of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire
erotic art
2
: strongly marked or affected by sexual desire
erotic
noun
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Examples of erotic in a Sentence
the erotic aspects of the story of Beauty and the Beast
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Kidman is coming off a big year in 2024, having starred in the Netflix comedy A Family Affair and the A24 erotic thriller Babygirl.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Through workshops, group discussions and exercises, and on the yoga mat, up to 140 participants will discover how to connect with, listen to and understand their erotic selves.
—Caren Osten Gerszberg, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
These bloody political, erotic, and literary entanglements are the subject of my article for this week’s issue.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
John Nacion/Getty Images John Nacion/Getty Images Even before the release of Babygirl, this sequence caused a stir among moviegoers, who speculated about its context and had a field day reinterpreting it in videos, memes, and subtly erotic puns shared on social networks.
—Valentine Servant-Ulgu, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Erotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erotic. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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erotic
adjective
erot·ic
i-ˈrät-ik 
: of, relating to, or marked by sexual love or desire
eroticism
noun
-ˈrät-ə-ˌsiz-əm
Medical Definition
erotic
adjective
erot·ic
i-ˈrät-ik
variants
also erotical
1
: of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire
2
: strongly marked or affected by sexual desire
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