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antierotic

antierotic adjective: opposing the erotic.

Adjective

antierotic (comparative more antierotic, superlative most antierotic)

  1. Opposing the erotic.
    • Gay sons thus exposed to shaming antierotic messages and punitive antierotic actions generally internalize the parental erotophobia to the point of imploding sexually by becoming self-homophobic.2011, Martin Kantor, Now That You're Out: The Challenges and Joys of Living as a Gay Man, page 76
  2. Contrary to the eros; sexually dampening or off-putting.
    • I have never shared his fantasy. The standard male images exalted by both gays and straights I find anti-erotic. Which isn't to say I'm never attracted by muscular men, only that I am by temperament a resolute anti-Platonist: I am not at all interested in ideal types, but rather individuals.1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9

Forms of antierotic

comparativemore antierotic
superlativemost antierotic

Origin of antierotic

From anti- + erotic.

Questions about antierotic

What does antierotic mean?
Antierotic means opposing the erotic.
What part of speech is antierotic?
Antierotic is an adjective.

Words near antierotic in the dictionary

  1. antiequalitarians
  2. antiequality
  3. antiequatorial
  4. antierectile
  5. antierosion
  6. antierotic
  7. antierysipelas
  8. antierythrocyte
  9. anties
  10. antiespionage
  11. antiessentialism

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