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homoerotic

homoerotic

9 9.1
Showing sexual attraction between people of the same sex
  • adjective
  • /ˌhoʊmoʊɪˈrɑtɪk/
  • NSFW
translation icon : 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.