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Meaning of "erotism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EROTISM

erotism  [ˈɛrəˌtɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EROTISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Erotism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EROTISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Erotica

Erotica is any artistic work that deals substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing subject matter. All forms of art may depict erotic content, including painting, sculpture, photography, drama, film, music or literature. Erotica has high-art aspirations, differentiating it from commercial pornography. Another category is amateur pornography which includes non-commercial works. Curiosa is erotica and pornography as discrete, collectible items, usually in published or printed form.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EROTISM


acrobatism
ˈækrəbəˌtɪzəm
astigmatism
əˈstɪɡməˌtɪzəm
automatism
ɔːˈtɒməˌtɪzəm
conservatism
kənˈsɜːvəˌtɪzəm
despotism
ˈdɛspəˌtɪzəm
egotism
ˈiːɡəˌtɪzəm
ergotism
ˈɜːɡəˌtɪzəm
exotism
ˈɛɡzəˌtɪzəm
hypnotism
ˈhɪpnəˌtɪzəm
metasomatism
ˌmɛtəˈsəʊməˌtɪzəm
nepotism
ˈnɛpəˌtɪzəm
patriotism
ˈpætrɪəˌtɪzəm
pragmatism
ˈpræɡməˌtɪzəm
prelatism
ˈprɛləˌtɪzəm
quietism
ˈkwaɪəˌtɪzəm
rheumatism
ˈruːməˌtɪzəm
sabbatism
ˈsæbəˌtɪzəm
stigmatism
ˈstɪɡməˌtɪzəm
Suprematism
sʊˈprɛməˌtɪzəm
traumatism
ˈtrɔːməˌtɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EROTISM

erotic
erotic capital
erotica
erotical
erotically
eroticisation
eroticise
eroticism
eroticist
eroticization
eroticize
erotisation
erotization
erotize
erotogenic
erotogenous
erotological
erotologist
erotology
erotomania

WORDS THAT END LIKE EROTISM

acrotism
antinepotism
autism
autoerotism
compatriotism
dicrotism
helotism
homoerotism
Huguenotism
narcotism
peyotism
photism
polycrotism
polyglotism
quixotism
robotism
Scotism
superpatriotism
sybotism
tricrotism
zealotism

Synonyms and antonyms of erotism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «erotism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EROTISM

Find out the translation of erotism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of erotism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «erotism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

性爱倾向
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

erotismo
570 millions of speakers

English

erotism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

erotism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شبق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эротизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

erotismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

erotism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

érotisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Erotisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Erotik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

エロティズム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

erotism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Erotism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

erotism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

erotism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वैप्रेम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

erotizm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

erotismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

erotyzm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

еротизм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

erotism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

erotism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

erotism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

erotism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

erotism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of erotism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EROTISM»

The term «erotism» is regularly used and occupies the 59.162 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EROTISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about erotism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EROTISM»

Discover the use of erotism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to erotism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Eroticism
Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all.
Georges Bataille, 2012
2
The Language of Psycho-analysis
The action of sucking, which Freud takes as the model of auto-erotism, is in fact preceded by a first stage during which the sexual instinct obtains satisfaction through an anaclitic* relationship with the self-preservative instinct* (hunger), and by ...
Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, 1973
3
Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Libido Theory
As far as can be ascertained, Freud used the term 'erotism' first in 'The Sexual Enlightenment of Children'.1 'This period of life [early childhood], during which a certain quota of what is undoubtedly sexual pleasure is produced by the excitation ...
Humberto Nagera, 2014
4
Surrealism and Architecture
17 G. Bataille, Erotism. Death and Sexuality (trans. M. Dalwood), San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1986, p. 109. 18 Bataille, Erotism, pp. 63, 64. 19 Bataille, Erotism, p. 36. 20 Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture (trans. F. Etchells), New ...
Thomas Mical, 2005
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A Dictionary of Psychology
Compare AGAPIC LOVE, LUDIC LOVE, MANIC LOVE, PRAGMATIC LOVE, STORGIC LOVE. erotism See ALLO-EROTISM, ANAL EROTISM, AUTO- EROTISM, ORGAN EROTISM, PHALLIC EROTISM, URETHRAL EROTISM. erotogenic zone n ...
Andrew M. Colman, 2009
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Fathomless Heart: The Spiritual and Philosophical ...
But this may have a deeper range and purpose than 'narcissism'. sexuality is first directly and economically faced by self-consciousness in auto-erotism, which for the humanistic compromise with sexuality is either scandalous or meaningless.
Lewis Thompson, Richard Lannoy, 2011
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Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of French ...
In the essay "On the Transformation of Instincts with Special Reference to Anal Erotism" Freud continues to refine, this time with relation to the object (feces) of anal erotism, the symbolic displacement from infancy to adulthood. Here Freud ...
Mitchell Greenberg, 2001
8
Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism
Reason and logic inhibit the attainment of the limit experience, while blasphemy, sacrifice, mystical ecstasy, war, and eroticism are all potential routes to it. In Erotism: Death and Sensuality, Bataille writes that "erotism" is an exemplary means ...
Laura Catherine Frost, 2002
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Writings on Art and Literature
It would be more correct to say that repression acts upon feelings, but we can only be aware of these in their association with ideas.1 So that it was Norbert Hanold's erotic feelings that were repressed; and since his erotism knew and had  ...
Sigmund Freud, 1997
10
Reading French Psychoanalysis
Even if in an initial stage the auto-erotism through which the child responds can be considered as an excitational discharge without represen- tation, this auto- erotism is situated in a context that contains all the elements of the Oedipal situation, ...
Dana Birksted-Breen, Sara Flanders, Alain Gibeault, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EROTISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term erotism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hanif Kureishi's 6 favorite books
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille (City Lights, $17). Bataille looks at sex through the cipher of transgression in his 1957 book, ... «The Week Magazine, Mar 15»
2
'The Uncanny Reader' Conjures Up Dreadful Pleasures
... about male erotism, while in Marjorie Bowen's “Decay” love stinks. Literally. Other stories consciously grapple with philosophical questions. «PopMatters, Mar 15»
3
(Video) Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo Sings EROTIC Karaoke …
“I don't want you to feel something different, just erotism. “I'm the one who want in your bed at night and just in bed. If we get that clear we can ... «caughtoffside, Feb 15»
4
Watch Cristiano Ronaldo sing about his craving for SEX during 30th …
... not love by insisting: “I don't want you to feel something different, just erotism” and “I'm the one who want in your bed at night and just in bed. «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 15»
5
Berlin: The Best Things Werner Herzog, Nicole Kidman and James …
... "most erotic scene" he's ever shot. It involves Franco's character showing Gertrude Bell a card trick. "It's a scene of pure erotism," Herzog said. «Indie Wire, Feb 15»
6
Feminism Awakens In Himalayan Buddhist Art and Meditation
The Himalayan taste for vivid, some might say electric color, combined with the erotism of certain of its sculptures and paintings, seems ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
7
Why Louise Bourgeois' and Robert Gober's Feminist and Queer …
With Bataille's unbridled embrace of a new erotism in mind, scores of artists from the 1980s onward sought to locate a new politics of surrealism ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
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Eight antique Udaipur sculptures find place of pride at Pinacothèque …
... of some 350 pieces of exotic artwork from 15 countries is based on the theme 'The Kama-Sutra: Spirituality and erotism in Indian art'. "One of ... «Times of India, Oct 14»
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The Kama Sutra 'not a dirty little book'
A woman looks at a sculpture as she visits the exhibition The Kama Sutra : spirituality and erotism in Indian art, at the Paris' pinacotheque on ... «iAfrica.com, Oct 14»
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Mar Silver Presents "The Uncanny Lady M" – An Exhibition of …
The collection, titled “The Uncanny Lady M,” features 13 works by Roselli that explore her interpretation of identity, erotism and gender. «PR Web, Oct 14»

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