erotica
Americannoun
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written works, usually fiction, dealing with sexual love.
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sexually explicit art, photographs, sculptures, or the like, depicting human sexuality.
plural noun
Usage
What does erotica mean? Erotica is visual art or writing created to sexually arouse the viewer or reader. It is commonly associated with novels and internet fan fiction.Content warning: the following content includes references to sexual activity.
Etymology
Origin of erotica
1850–55; < Greek, neuter plural of erōtikós erotic
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Example Sentences
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Walters plays a woman who presides over a world, not of exciting erotica, but absurdly tacky and dull kitchen-sink drear.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2020
I think it’s definitely an issue that extends beyond erotica and into most forms of media, of course, but it is one that I would like to help correct.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2013
It’s time to admit that data has joined agenda, erotica, insignia, opera, stamina, and other technically plural Latin and Greek words that have become thoroughly Anglicized as singular nouns taking singular verbs.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Si grauis & tetricus contemnis erotica, rerum nosce precor seriem tam bene dispositam.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert
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