erogenous
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs, “love”) + -genous (“producing”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
erogenous (comparative more erogenous, superlative most erogenous)
- Sensitive to sexual arousal.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p. 254,
- His neck, shoulders, upper back, and spine were erogenous zones.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p. 254,
- Causing sexual arousal; erotogenic.
Related terms
Translations
sensitive to sexual arousal
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