Hentai

//ˈhɛntaɪ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art. Japanese, countable, uncountable

    "There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love"

Example

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"I like the one-sided view foreigners have of Japan. It makes me happy when ninjas, hentai anime, samurai and stuff like that come up."

Etymology

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

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