erotica

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ɪˈɹɒt.ɪkə/

Definition of erotica

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work.
    “There's a fine line between erotica and pornography.”
    “In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work.
    “There's a fine line between erotica and pornography.”
    “In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades.”
  2. (countable)A work of erotica.
    “Rather a principal avenue of traffic and distribution of eroticas is the social network of age-peers ([…]).”
    “Some films advertised as minor eroticas are so much in demand by the paying public and these have overshadowed the value of a few seminars which seem to draw only the scholars and the film theorists.”
    “Tilson carries work by the late John Lennon, including lithographs, a few signed eroticas and republished drawings.”
    “Though the poetic work of Bhikṣu Padmaśrī, Nāgarasarvasva is an erotica, the writer has not followed Vätsyāyana in his work, rather, he has followed Bharata Muni.”
    “His costume dramas (including eroticas) are all imprinted with the hallmark of this spectacular and lyrical “dream factory” of classical China.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-tider.? Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek ἐράω (eráō) Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)der. Latin erōticabor. English erotica From neuter plural of Latin eroticus (“amatory”), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós). By surface analysis, erotic + -ica.

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