semierotic

English

Alternative forms

• semi-erotic

Etymology

semi- +‎ erotic

Adjective

semierotic (not comparable)

1. Somewhat erotic; sexually charged but not explicit.
   • 1977, M. P. Janisse, Pupillometry: the psychology of the pupillary response, page 45:

     The first group was positive pictures of a "semierotic" nature; the second group was neutral pictures depicting houses; and the third group was negative pictures of "the starving or injured."

   • 1993, Wimal Dissanayake, Dudley Andrew, Melodrama and Asian Cinema, →ISBN, page 22:

     Perhaps equally problematic from a European/North American feminist point of view is the invitation to pleasure in the semierotic surrogate-mother/infant-boy relationship between Xiaoxiao and Chunguan.

   • 2007, Jack Mauro, M4M: For an Hour or Forever--the Gay Man's Guide to Finding Love Online, →ISBN:

     The guy jumping into a chat room may be out for some fast self-gratification, a little entertainment, or a semierotic, semiamusing way to kill ten minutes at the office.

   • 2009, Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York, →ISBN:

     Henry Spencer Ashbee, the leading nineteenth-century bibliographer of erotic and semierotic literature, estimated that Thompson had written nearly a hundred books.

Anagrams

• emictories