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homoerotic

homoerotic

9 9.1
Showing sexual attraction between people of the same sex
  • adjective
  • /ˌhoʊmoʊɪˈrɑtɪk/
  • NSFW
: homoerótico
  • In the novel, the author subtly weaves homoerotic undertones into the friendship between the two male protagonists.
  • homoerotic desire
  • homoerotic attraction
  • homoerotic youth

Is there anything more homeless homoerotic than two men in one ice bath together?

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Examples

  • However, what seems to be more important is that for this generation of women, homoerotic, bodiless, and "unproductive" sex became the ideal.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Its policies attempt to steer sexuality in general, but homoerotic interactions in particular, away from the public realm.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Now, there are a couple ways of thinking about that homoerotic structure.

  • - This is a homoerotic opening.

  • What was with the homoerotic tension?

  • At last, there is a website for your homoerotic presidential fan fiction.

    Blog text (12)
  • In fact, I like all homoerotic, fighter-pilot movies.

  • Remember thinking this scene was really homoerotic during the initial reading of Eclipse and feeling "into" that.

    Blog text (1)
  • A typical teenager's bedroom, except this one is a shrine to Herb Ritts' homoerotic art.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Artists who illustrated these Ovidian homoerotic myths uniformly chose the noble moment of Liebestod.

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

gay
vshomoerotic
∞ 3.5

Attracted to people of the same sex

refers to art or images suggesting sexual attraction between people of the same sex

How Sexual

pornographic
  • Offensive
49 7.2
erotic
  • NSFW
113 6.5
homoerotic
  • NSFW
9 9.1
suggestive
  • Offensive
9 6.0
nonsexual
3 4.8

Surface Forms

homoerotic positive

Morphology

homoerotic = erotic (transparent) = homo + erotic

The adjective is directly formed by prefixation of 'homo-' to 'erotic', so the meaning follows straightforwardly from the parts.

Etymology

The word homoerotic has homo- meaning 'same', as in homogeneous, and erotic from the Greek Eros meaning 'sexual love'. So, homoerotic describes sexual attraction or tension between people of the same sex.