erotic
Meant to arouse
Erotic describes what arouses sexual desire or relates to sexual love.
Erotic literature, erotic art, erotic dreams.
The word carries more refinement than sexual or sexy—it suggests aestheticized or elevated sensuality rather than crude arousal.
The film's erotic tension built slowly.
Erotica refers to sexually stimulating creative works, distinguished from pornography by artistic intent.
Hot, moist, or erotic
- sultryHot, humid, or alluring
- spicyHaving strong heat
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
- suggestiveHinting at impropriety
risqué · titillating · sizzling · salacious · bawdy · raunchy · lusty · naughty
Of bodily pleasure
- caressGentle loving touch
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- closenessState of proximity
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
embrace · whisper · warmth · softness · candlelight · massage · skin · breath
Intense wanting
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- titillationPleasurable, teasing excitement
- stimulationEvoking a response
- excitementState of eager enthusiasm
libido · fantasy · temptation · seduction · yearning · craving · appetite · urge
Love and its excitement
- smutLewd content or soot
- bodice-ripperSensational romantic fiction
- pulpSoft wet mass
- Kama SutraSanskrit treatise on erotic love
boudoir photography · pinup · burlesque · striptease · sensuality · explicit · fantasy · fiction
Intense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- intensityStrength or force level
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
desire · longing · amour · obsession · fire · heat · burning · inflamed
Not allowed
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- illicitProhibited by law
- scandalousMorally offensive or shocking
- obsceneGrossly offensive to decency
censorship · indecent · unmentionable · stigma · repression · puritanical · prudish · decency
steamy
Hot, moist, or erotic
- sultryHot, humid, or alluring
- spicyHaving strong heat
- provocativeMeant to provoke response
suggestive · risqué · titillating · sizzling · salacious · bawdy · raunchy · lusty · naughty · indecent
sensual
Of bodily pleasure
- caressGentle loving touch
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- closenessState of proximity
touch · embrace · whisper · warmth · softness · candlelight · massage · skin · breath · lingerie
desire
Intense wanting
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- titillationPleasurable, teasing excitement
- stimulationEvoking a response
excitement · libido · fantasy · temptation · seduction · yearning · craving · appetite · urge · thirst
romance
Love and its excitement
- smutLewd content or soot
- bodice-ripperSensational romantic fiction
- pulpSoft wet mass
Kama Sutra · boudoir photography · pinup · burlesque · striptease · sensuality · explicit · fantasy · fiction
ardor
Intense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- intensityStrength or force level
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
ecstasy · desire · longing · amour · obsession · fire · heat · burning · inflamed · torrid
forbidden
Not allowed
- transgressiveViolating accepted boundaries
- illicitProhibited by law
- scandalousMorally offensive or shocking
obscene · censorship · indecent · unmentionable · stigma · repression · puritanical · prudish · decency · shameful
- intimacykiss, hug, embrace, closeness, snuggling
- seductionseduction, seductive, allure, beguilement, enticement
- screen intimacynude scene, sex scene, love scene, nudity, bedroom scene
- film genreshorror, comedy, drama, action, romance
- sexualitysexual orientation, sexual behavior, sexual identity, bisexual, sensuality
- risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive
eroticcold
Low temperature state
passionless · frigid · dispassionate · detached · unfeeling
- erotic lovePassionate romantic desire
- erotic novel
- erotic dancerSensual movement performer
- erotic massageSexual touch service
- erotic poetryLiterature of carnal longing
- erotic literatureSexually explicit written works
eroticism, erotica, erotically, erotism, eroticized, eroticize, eroticizing