erections

Buildings going up

Erections is the plural of erection.

Most commonly, an erection is the stiffening of the penis when engorged with blood, typically from sexual arousal: He woke up with an erection.

The word also means the act of building or assembling something, or a structure that has been erected: the erection of a monument, steel erections dotted the construction site.

anatomical

penile

Of the male organ

rigidity · priapism · nocturnal · morning · spontaneous · firmness · hardness · blood flow · stimulation · response

construction

building

Enclosed roofed structure

raising · structure · installation · crane · steelwork · girders · beam · fabrication · hoisting · rigging

ceremonial

monument

Structure honoring someone remembered

  • statueThree-dimensional sculpted likeness
  • memorialThing preserving remembrance
  • obeliskTapering stone monument

pillar · column · dedication · unveiling · commemoration · tribute · plinth · pedestal · installation · public

Opposites
building/construction process

erectionsdemolitions

Deliberate structural destructions

destructions · teardowns · razing · dismantling · dismantlings

physiological state

erectionsflaccidity

Lack of firmness

limpness · softness · impotence · erectile dysfunction · floppiness

structural state

erectionscollapses

Suddenly falls inward

fallings · topples · prostrations · flattenings · topplings

Family

erection

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13