eroticizing
Lending sexual meaning
Eroticizing is treating something as sexually arousing or investing it with erotic significance.
The term often appears in critical discussions of how media, culture, or individual psychology sexualizes subjects that aren't inherently sexual: The film was criticized for eroticizing violence.
Someone might eroticize power dynamics, body parts, or scenarios through fantasy or representation.
Intense wanting
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- libidoInnate erotic drive
- stimulationEvoking a response
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
titillation · craving · temptation · attraction · yearning · carnality · concupiscence · excitement
Powerfully appealing
- suggestiveHinting at impropriety
- flirtatiousPlayfully romantic in manner
- teasingPlayful, mild ridicule
- risqueBordering on improper
seductive · enticing · tantalizing · coquettish · sultry · provocative · vampish · beguiling
Faculty for forming ideas
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
desire · roleplay · taboo · forbidden · illicit · dreamworld · enchantment · make-believe
Increase in degree
- amplifyIncrease in strength
- escalateIncrease in severity
- deepenIncrease in degree
- enhanceIncrease in quality
magnify · accentuate · boost · augment · strengthen · charge · electrify · inflame
Obsess over unhealthily
- objectifyTreat as mere thing
- sexualizeMake sexual in nature
- hypersexualizeEmphasize sexuality excessively
- exoticizeMake seem foreign, alluring
commodify · voyeuristic · dehumanize · titillate · lewdness · lasciviousness · exploitation · gratuitous
desire
Intense wanting
- lustIntense carnal appetite
- libidoInnate erotic drive
- stimulationEvoking a response
sensuality · titillation · craving · temptation · attraction · yearning · carnality · concupiscence · excitement · appetite
alluring
Powerfully appealing
- suggestiveHinting at impropriety
- flirtatiousPlayfully romantic in manner
- teasingPlayful, mild ridicule
risque · seductive · enticing · tantalizing · coquettish · sultry · provocative · vampish · beguiling · siren
imagination
Faculty for forming ideas
- daydreamConscious fantasy while awake
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- escapismHabitual mental retreat
fantasy · desire · roleplay · taboo · forbidden · illicit · dreamworld · enchantment · make-believe · scenario
heighten
Increase in degree
enhance · magnify · accentuate · boost · augment · strengthen · charge · electrify · inflame · arouse
fetishize
Obsess over unhealthily
- objectifyTreat as mere thing
- sexualizeMake sexual in nature
- hypersexualizeEmphasize sexuality excessively
exoticize · commodify · voyeuristic · dehumanize · titillate · lewdness · lasciviousness · exploitation · gratuitous · prurient
eroticizingneutering
Surgical sterilization of animals
sanitizing · defusing · bowdlerizing · purifying · censoring
eroticizingmedicalizing
Reframing as disease
demystifying · disenchanting · repulsing · disgusting · horrifying
eroticizinganatomizing
Examining in minute detail
medicalizing · professionalizing · neutralizing · normalizing · domesticating