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the subtle eroticism of his films
an actress known for her smoldering eroticism
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But their steamy scenes don’t always resemble the eroticism of cinema past.
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Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
But a film that’s primarily selling eroticism, packed with club beats and the occasionally homoerotic visual gag?
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025
Mishima’s morbid eroticism gave his best novels their peculiar power.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
And there are more examples of eroticism in early Balkan folk vampire lore.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
But a film that’s primarily selling eroticism, packed with club beats and the occasionally homoerotic visual gag?
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2025
Mishima’s morbid eroticism gave his best novels their peculiar power.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
And there are more examples of eroticism in early Balkan folk vampire lore.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for eroticism
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“Eroticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eroticism. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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eroticism
noun
erot·i·cism
i-ˈrät-ə-ˌsiz-əm 
1
: the arousal of or the attempt to arouse sexual feeling by means of suggestion, symbolism, or allusion (as in an art form)
2
: a state of sexual arousal or anticipation (as from stimulation of erogenous zones)
3
: insistent sexual impulse or desire
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