eroticismn.
/ɛˈrɒtɪsɪz(ə)m/ 1. Erotic spirit or character; also, the use of erotic or sexually arousing imagery in literature or art.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > propensity to love or sexual passions > erotic spirit or character
eroticism1881
erotism1888
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > literary movements or theories
romanticism1821
romantism1828
naturalism1845
realism1856
sensationism1862
symbolism1866
classicisma1878
eroticism1881
impressionism1883
sensitivism1891
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
neo-realism1908
futurism1909
Félibrism1911
postmodernism1914
vorticism1914
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
Scythism1921
Scythianism1923
Russian Formalism1925
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
populism1930
Sachlichkeit1930
dirty realism1931
ultraism1932
thingism1935
formalism1943
organicism1945
lettrism1946
New Wave1960
socialist realism1967
catastrophism1969
pointillism1972
po-mo1986
1881 Sat. Rev. 9 July 53/1 The religious eroticism of Redi.
1885 Sat. Rev. 11 Apr. 483/1 This martyr [Mme. de Montifaud] to eroticism.
1957 T. Talbot tr. J. Ortega y Gasset's On Love ii. 43 A theory of eroticism ought to begin by an explanation of its most perfect forms.
1969 Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 10/4 He [sc. Thomas Mann] puts the German character on the operating table..: the loneliness, the smug provincialism, the Wagnerian primitivism, the eroticism.
1978 I. B. Singer Shosha vii. 135 There is no reason why..even our friend Haiml's blend of eroticism and Hasidism could not exist in a play-city or play-world.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 358/2 Eroticism was more explicit in the sensuous nudes..of François Boucher.
2. Medicine and Psychology. A condition or state of sexual excitement or desire; a tendency to become sexually aroused, usually by some specified stimulus.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] > sexual excitement
sexual excitement1819
erotism1849
eroticism1899
horniness1963
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 373 The sexual appetite in both sexes is usually reduced or absent, but eroticism and self-abuse may be associated with the condition.
1924 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex (ed. 3) II. iii. 81 Ferenczi again..accepts ‘the psychic capacity of the child to direct his originally objectless eroticism to one or both sexes’, and terms this disposition ambisexuality.
1975 Obstetr. & Gynecol. 46 315/1 Androgens increase eroticism.
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