Semierotic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Semierotic is an adjective meaning Somewhat erotic; sexually charged but not explicit.
Meaning
Somewhat erotic; sexually charged but not explicit.
Example Sentences
Henry Spencer Ashbee, the leading nineteenth-century bibliographer of erotic and semierotic literature, estimated that Thompson had written nearly a hundred books.
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.
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."
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.
Word Forms
- semi-erotic
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include semisexy, semisensuous, semipornographic, semihot, saucy, eroticized.
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