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antierotic en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + erotic.

Meanings

  1. Opposing the erotic.
    • Gay sons thus exposed to shaming antierotic messages and punitive antierotic actions generally internalize the parental erotophobia to the point of imploding sexually by becoming self-homophobic. 2011, Martin Kantor, Now That You're Out: The Challenges and Joys of Living as a Gay Man, page 76:
  2. Contrary to the eros; sexually dampening or off-putting.
    • I have never shared his fantasy. The standard male images exalted by both gays and straights I find anti-erotic. Which isn't to say I'm never attracted by muscular men, only that I am by temperament a resolute anti-Platonist: I am not at all interested in ideal types, but rather individuals. 1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9:

Forms

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more antierotic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most antierotic Degree=Sup lexicographic

Relateds

antieroticism

Translations (1)

pt antierótico (opposing the erotic)