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Definitions: Eroticism |
EroticismNoun1. A state of anticipation of sexuality. 2. The arousal of feelings of sexual desire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eroticism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references) |
Synonyms: EroticismSynonyms: amativeness (n), amorousness (n), erotism (n), sexiness (n). (additional references) |
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Henri Lefebvre | In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love. |
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| "Eroticism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eroticism" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eroticism": anal eroticism ♦ oral eroticism. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "eroticism": auto-eroticism, homo-eroticism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eroticism | 120 |
auto eroticism | 13 |
attitude christian eroticism | 5 |
bdsm eroticism | 5 |
eroticism gay | 3 |
lesbian eroticism | 3 |
eroticism male | 3 |
eroticism tasteful | 2 |
eroticism woman | 2 |
art eroticism renaissance | 2 |
eroticism female | 2 |
art eroticism | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eroticism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | erotizëm, ndjeshmëri (delicacy, empathy, feeling, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentience, susceptibility, tenderness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التهيج الجنسي, الإثارة الجنسية, الشبق. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чувственост (carnality, fleshliness, sensuality), еротизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 性欲. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | erotismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | erotik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | erotiek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | erotiikka (sex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | érotisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erotik (erotism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερωτομανία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ארוטיות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | erotika (erotica), szerelmi gyönyör, kéj (gust, pleasure), érzékiség (animalism, carnality, concupiscence, lubricity, lusciousness, prurience, pruriency, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, sensuousness, sins of the flesh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | erotik (erotic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | erotismo (erotism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | エル"ー盤 (aerogram, angel, elbow, Electone, Electra complex, electric, electric guitar, electricity, electroluminescence, electron, electronic, electronic banking, electronic cooking, electronic cottage, electronic file, electronic mail, electronic money, electronic music, electronic office, electronic sound, electronics, elegance, elegant, elegy, element, elementary, elevation, elevator, elf, elm, elocution, elven, encapsulation, enclosure, encode, encoder, encoding, encounter, encyclopedia, engage, engagement, engagement ring, engine, engine brake, engineer, engineering, engineering plastics, enjoy, erect, erection, erogenous zone, Eroica, Eros, erotic, erotic and grotesque, erotic and grotesque nonsense, erotic production, erotica, erotism, erotomania, Herman, Hermes, ignition key, long-playing record, LP). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | エロチシズ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | an-ghraaghys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eroticismay erotismo (erotism). (various references) erotism. (various references) эротизм. (various references) erotizam. (various references) erotomanía (furor amatorius), erotismo, sicalipsis (suggestiveness). (various references) erotisk symbol (erotism), erotisk natur (erotism), erotik (erotica, erotism), sexuell upphetsning (erotism). (various references) การหมกมุ่นในกามารม"์, ลักษ"ะที่กระตุ้นความต้องการทางเพศ, ความต้องการทางเพศ (lust). (various references) erotizm, şehvet (carnality, concupiscence, desire, flesh, lust, lustfulness, salacity, sensuality, sexual desire). (various references) хтивість (animalism, carnality, concupiscence, lust), еротизм. (various references) tính đa dâm, tư tưởng dâm dục. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eroticism": eroticisms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "eroticism": autoeroticism, homoeroticism. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eroticism": autoeroticisms, homoeroticisms. (additional references) | |
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"Eroticism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egotissimo, eroticise, eroticize, erotics, erotocism, erraticism, euoticus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eroticism" (pronounced erÄ"tusi'zum) |
| 7 | -t u s i' z u m | criticism, fanaticism, gnosticism, monasticism, mysticism, romanticism, skepticism. |
| 6 | -u s i' z u m | classicism, cynicism, empiricism, lyricism, narcissism, ostracism, stoicism. |
| 5 | -s i' z u m | racism, sexism. |
| 4 | -i' z u m | abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, agrarianism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, anachronism, aneurism, animism, antagonism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, authoritarianism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, chauvinism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, communism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, creationism, cronyism, cubism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egalitarianism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, factionalism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, feminism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gradualism, hedonism, helotism, heroism, hooliganism, humanism, hypnotism, idealism, illusionism, imperialism, impressionism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, Irredentism, isolationism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, lesbianism, liberalism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mechanism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, microorganism, militarism, minimalism, modernism, monetarism, monism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, obstructionism, opportunism, optimism, organism, overoptimism, pacifism, paganism, parallelism, parkinsonism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, perfectionism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, protectionism, provincialism, puritanism, racialism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, republicanism, revisionism, rheumatism, sadism, satanism, sectarianism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, socialism, statism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tokenism, totalitarianism, tourism, truism, unionism, vandalism, vegetarianism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
| 3 | -z u m | bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: isometric. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-m-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: comities, isomeric, meristic, mortices, scimiter, semiotic, trisemic, trisomic. | |
-2 letters: eristic, erotics, erotism, meiotic, metrics, miotics, miriest, miscite, mistier, moister, mortice, mortise, rimiest, somitic, soritic, trismic, trisome. | |
-3 letters: cestoi, citers, cities, comers, comets, comtes, corset, cosier, coster, crimes, erotic, escort, iciest, isomer, merits, metric, metros, micros, miotic, mister, miters, mitier, mitres, moires, rectos, remits. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-m-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: biometrics, dosimetric, eroticisms, isometrics, semitropic. | |
+2 letters: cliometrics, creationism, esotericism, melioristic, meteoritics, microliters, micropipets, miscreation, modernistic, neuroticism, romanticise, semitropics, sociometric, spirometric, thermionics, timocracies, uricotelism, viscometric. | |
+3 letters: biochemistry, conformities, craniotomies, creationisms, discomfiture, dominatrices, esotericisms, gastrocnemii, importancies, imprecations, isodiametric, mediocrities, meretricious, metrications, microinjects, miscreations, misdirection, neuroticisms, radiochemist, reductionism, romanticised, romanticises, romanticizes, seismometric, semitropical, sociometries, tensiometric, trichotomies, uricotelisms, viscometries, viscosimeter, vitrectomies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 72 6F 74 69 63 69 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-. --- - .. -.-. .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110010 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E r o t i c i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0072 006F 0074 0069 0063 0069 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398481867569758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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