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semierotic

semierotic adjective: somewhat erotic; sexually charged but not explicit.

Adjective

semierotic (not comparable)

  1. Somewhat erotic; sexually charged but not explicit.
    • The first group was positive pictures of a "semierotic" nature; the second group was neutral pictures depicting houses; and the third group was negative pictures of "the starving or injured."1977, M. P. Janisse, Pupillometry: the psychology of the pupillary response, page 45
    • Perhaps equally problematic from a European/North American feminist point of view is the invitation to pleasure in the semierotic surrogate-mother/infant-boy relationship between Xiaoxiao and Chunguan.1993, Wimal Dissanayake, Dudley Andrew, Melodrama and Asian Cinema, →ISBN, page 22

Examples of semierotic in a sentence

  • The guy jumping into a chat room may be out for some fast self-gratification, a little entertainment, or a semierotic, semiamusing way to kill ten minutes at the office.2007, Jack Mauro, M4M: For an Hour or Forever--the Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love Online, →ISBN:
  • Henry Spencer Ashbee, the leading nineteenth-century bibliographer of erotic and semierotic literature, estimated that Thompson had written nearly a hundred books.2009, Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York, →ISBN:

Forms of semierotic

alternative formsemi-erotic

Origin of semierotic

From semi- + erotic.

Questions about semierotic

What does semierotic mean?
Semierotic means somewhat erotic; sexually charged but not explicit.
How do you use semierotic in a sentence?
The guy jumping into a chat room may be out for some fast self-gratification, a little entertainment, or a semierotic, semiamusing way to kill ten minutes at the office.
What part of speech is semierotic?
Semierotic is an adjective.

Words near semierotic in the dictionary

  1. semiequally
  2. semiequitant
  3. semierect
  4. semierection
  5. semierections
  6. semierotic
  7. semiessential
  8. semievergreen
  9. semievergreens
  10. semiexoskeleton
  11. semiexoskeletons

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