erotic love
- noun
- /ɪˈrɒtɪk lʌv/
- NSFW
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amor erótico
- The seventeenth-century "sociolect," as Miller calls it, distrusts and condemns erotic love, promoting instead marriage and family.
Examples
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She wrote a novel exploring the complexities of erotic love and its impact on personal identity.
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Erotic love is a desire for union, which is why human sexual love is such an obvious and therefore useful carnal example of eros.
Blog text (33) -
Isa's repeated texts, "He is my husband" and "the father of my children," quickly order her emotions, suppressing an unruly desire for writing and erotic love (47-48).
Fiction book (1993) -
Their relationship is fueled by a passionate erotic love that captivates everyone around them.
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The film beautifully portrays the journey of two people discovering their erotic love for each other.
Synonyms
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1.0
A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction for another person
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3.3
A very strong sexual desire or attraction to someone
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5.2
A very strong desire for something, often for things people see as forbidden
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9.9
A strong sexual attraction to someone
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3.8
A strong wish to have sex with another person
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3.2
A feeling of wanting to have sex with someone
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4.2
A strong desire to have sex
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4.9
Strong romantic and physical attraction between two people that often includes intimate contact
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7.2
A strong desire to have sex with someone
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9.9
A very strong sexual desire, especially for sex between a man and a woman
A strong desire for physical and romantic closeness
A strong feeling of love or desire for someone
A strong desire to have sex
Antonyms
How Passionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'erotic' (related to sexual desire) modifying 'love' (strong affection/sexual attraction); together they straightforwardly denote sexual passion or desire. This simple adjective+noun composition follows standard compositional patterns and is likely inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Erotic love comes from the Greek god Eros, whose name gave the word erotic and who was often shown with arrows that made people want each other. So erotic love means 'strong sexual desire' or 'passionate attraction' today.