Examples of eroticism in a Sentence
the subtle eroticism of his films
an actress known for her smoldering eroticism
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The performance unfolds as an interplay of contrasts between excess and stillness, eroticism and virtuosity, violence and intimacy.
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Jana Baumann, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Anderson ties her interest in revolution to her eroticism; the idea of violently capturing freedom for herself and others turns her on.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
The brutality of conformism, the draining of romantic love, the disavowal of human eroticism and desire—these are the tenets of the society that Singh and Musteata have drawn, with an impish humor, a society that must smell rank, given the interdiction against clean teeth.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
Even so, many are uneasy about the technology’s seductive turn, as if eroticism were an accident of evolution rather than encoded into its DNA.
—Literary Hub, 20 Nov. 2025
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Jana Baumann, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
Anderson ties her interest in revolution to her eroticism; the idea of violently capturing freedom for herself and others turns her on.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
The brutality of conformism, the draining of romantic love, the disavowal of human eroticism and desire—these are the tenets of the society that Singh and Musteata have drawn, with an impish humor, a society that must smell rank, given the interdiction against clean teeth.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2025
Even so, many are uneasy about the technology’s seductive turn, as if eroticism were an accident of evolution rather than encoded into its DNA.
—Literary Hub, 20 Nov. 2025
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“Eroticism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eroticism. Accessed 15 Dec. 2025.
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eroticism
noun
erot·i·cism
i-ˈrät-ə-ˌsiz-əm 
1
: the arousal of or the attempt to arouse sexual feeling by means of suggestion, symbolism, or allusion (as in an art form)
2
: a state of sexual arousal or anticipation (as from stimulation of erogenous zones)
3
: insistent sexual impulse or desire
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