sexuoerotic

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adjective

Pertaining to sex and erotic arousal.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivesexuoerotic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to sex and erotic arousal.
    2 more examples

    1987, John Money, "Homosexual Gender Identity and Psychoneuroendocrinology", in American Psychologist, volume 42, issue 4, pages 384–399, as reprinted in Stella Chess, Alexander Thomas, and Margaret Hertzig (editors), Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development, 1988: A Selection of the Year's Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding and Treatment of the Normal and Disturbed Child, Brunner/Mazel Publishers (1988), →ISBN, page 41, As in subhuman primates, in the human species sexuoerotic status is dependent not only on prenatal homonalization, but also on postnatal socialization effects.

    Chronophiles are persons of any age whose sexuoerotic ages is incongruous with their physical age, yet is harmonious with the age of their chosen sexual partner/preference. Chronophilia is not related in any way to paedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, gerontophilia or teleiophilia as individuals who possess these sexual orientations have congruent physical and sexuoerotic ages and generally have a preference for people of a different physical age.

    2007, Adrian Powell, Paedophiles, Child Abuse, and the Internet: A Practical Guide to Identification, Action, and Prevention, Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 6

Origin

  1. Englishsexuo-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁rem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₁rém-e-tider.?
  4. Ancient Greekἐράω (eráō)
  5. Ancient Greekἔρως (érōs)
  6. Ancient Greekἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)
  7. Latinerōticu
  8. Frenchérotique
  9. Englisherotic
  10. Englishsexuoerotic

From sexuo- + erotic.

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APA

sexuoerotic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sexuoerotic

MLA

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Chicago

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