aphrodi-, -aphrodisia, -aphrodisiac, -aphroditic +
(Greek: Greek goddess of love; originally from afros, "foam", because Aphrodite was thought to have been born from the foam of the sea)
anaphrodisia
1. Repressing or destroying sexual desire.
2. A decline or absence of sexual desire.
3. Diminished sexual desire.
anaphrodisiac
1. Something which decreases sexual desires.
2. Tending to diminish sexual desire.
3. A chemical that inhibits sexual response.
4. Repressing or destroying sexual desire.
anaphroditic
1. Produced asexually.
2. Produced without concourse of sexes.
A concourse of sexes refers to the act of coming together; so, in this case plants or animals that reproduce without coming together sexually.
aphrodisia
A desire for heterosexual intimacy.
aphrodisiac
1. An aphrodisiac food, drug, potion, or other agent that arouses sexual desire.
2. A drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire.
3. Arousing or intensifying sexual desire.
aphrodisiacal
Arousing sexual desire.
aphrodisiacs
1. Drugs that stimulate a sexual response.
2. Something, usually a drug or food, which is believed to cause sexual desire in people.
aphrodisian
Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus.
Aphrodisias
A Pre-Classical and Classical city on the meander River of southwest Turkey with extant remains of the Roman period, including an agora (open space, serving as a commercial, political, religious, and social center in ancient Greece), odeum,
temple of Aphrodite, and baths.
There also was an abundance of free-standing statues. The Pre-Classical mounds show Late Neolithic occupation and a sequence of Late Chalcolithic to Late Bronze Age artifacts.
aphrodisiomania
1. An abnormally powerful sexual excitement or desire.
2. An excessive erotic interest.
3. A morbid desire for venery.
aphrodita
1. In zoology, a genus of the order of Molluscas; also known as, "sea-mouse".
The body is oval, with many small protuberances or tentacles on each side, which serve as feet. The mouth is cylindrical, at one end of the body, with two bristly tentacles, which are capable of being retracted.
2. From Aphrodite, so called from Greek, froth, from which the goddess was supposed to have been produced.
Aphrodite
The goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with the Roman goddess Venus.
aphrodite
1. A soft opaque milk-white mineral, consisting mostly of bisilicate of magnesium, allied to Sepiolite or meerschaum.
2. In the sense of foam-stone.
hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism
1. An animal or plant bearing both male and female reproductive organs.
2. An organism; such as, an earthworm or flowering plant, having both male and female reproductive organs in a single individual.
Through Middle English, hermofrodite, from the Latin element hermaphroditus, from Greek hermaphroditos, from Hermaphroditos, the son of Aphrodite and Hermes who merged into one form with the nymph Salmacis.
hermaphroditic
1. A reference to animals or plants having both male and female reproductive organs.
2. Containing the sex organs of both sexes in one individual.
Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units:
-cest;
eroto-;
lagneuo-;
-lagnia;
masochism;
porno-;
Sadism-;
satyr-;
sex-;
sodom-;
whore.