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alloerotic en · ADJ

Etymology

From allo- (“other”) + erotic (“pertaining to erotic desire”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having erotic desire for or attraction to another person of either sex.
    • It is this loss of gratification—whether autoerotic or alloerotic (involving another person such as the mother)—that Lacan refers to as "castration." 1999, Bruce Fink, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique, Harvard University Press, page 66:

Antonyms

analloerotic

Deriveds

alloeroticism

Synonyms

heteroerotic