Meanings
comparative more erotically · superlative most erotically
- in an erotic manner
They also practice healing, and, during the course of their services, shout and dance as erotically and sincerely as savages around a jungle fire.
1928, Wallace Henry Thurman, Negro Life in New York's Harlem, Chapter 72 more examples
Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.
1901, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Three Plays for Puritans”, in Three Plays for Puritans: The Devil’s Disciple, Cæsar and Cleopatra, & Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, London: Grant Richards, […], →OCLC, page xxixWits is voyeur to the underbelly of the city; like a madam in a knock-shop, she watches equivocally the mess of city garbage tangled erotically with roadside gambling and sunglass-snatching
2006, Mary Rorich, “Knowledge is Power, And You'd Better Believe it”, in Margaret Orr, Mary Rorich, Finuala Dowling, editors, The Wits Wonderwoman Book: Buttons and Breakfasts
Origin
- Ancient Greekἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)
- Latinerōticu
- Frenchérotique
- Englisherotic
- Englisherotically
Translations
Catalan eròticament
- eròticamentin an erotic manner
Esperanto erotike
- erotikein an erotic manner
Finnish eroottisesti
- eroottisestiin an erotic manner
French érotiquement
- érotiquementin an erotic manner
Italian eroticamente
- eroticamentein an erotic manner
Portuguese eroticamente
- eroticamentein an erotic manner
Spanish eróticamente
- eróticamentein an erotic manner
Swedish erotiskt
- erotisktin an erotic manner
Cite this entry
erotically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erotically
“erotically.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erotically. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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