Erotica

//ɪˈɹɒt.ɪkə// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work. uncountable

    "There's a fine line between erotica and pornography."

  2. 2
    creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire wordnet
  3. 3
    A work of erotica. countable

    "Rather a principal avenue of traffic and distribution of eroticas is the social network of age-peers ([…])."

Synonyms

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pornographyancient literaturebelles lettresbelles-lettresclassicclassics

Example

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"There's a fine line between erotica and pornography."

Etymology

From neuter plural of Latin eroticus (“amatory”), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós). By surface analysis, erotic + -ica.

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monster eroticaspeculative erotica

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