eroto-, erot-, ero-, eros +

Sexual desire directed toward another person (not toward oneself).

1. In psychoanalytic psychology, the earliest stage in the development of object relationships where the self is the only object recognized and the infant does not differentiate between self and nonself.
2. Spontaneous erotism, self-erotism; sexual gratification aroused or obtained by oneself, i.e. not with another person; masturbation.

Producing erotic feelings; often a reference to parts of the body that are sensitive to sexual arousal.

1. Sexual love or desire.
2. In psychiatry, the libido or the psychic energy associated with it.
3. From Greek mythology, the god of love, son of Aphrodite.

He was identified by the Romans with Cupid.

1. Of or arousing sexual feelings or desires; having to do with sexual love; amatory.
2. Highly susceptible to sexual stimulation.
3. Of or pertaining to the passion of love; concerned with or treating of love; amatory.

1. Erotic books, pictures, etc.
2. Matters of love; erotic literature or art (frequently as a heading in catalogs).

1. Erotic quality or character.
2. Sexual instincts or desire; sexual excitement or behavior.
3. Preoccupation with sex.

To make erotic; to stimulate sexually.

1. An abnormally powerful sex drive.
2. A melancholy or kind of insanity arising from passionate love.
3. A pathologic preoccupation with sexual fantasies or activities. A syndrome that occurs almost exclusively in women and consists of a delusional belief that a man, usually older and of higher social status, is deeply in love with the patient.

Sexual excitement.

To transform (an emotion, etc.) into sexual feelings.

In psychiatry, the morbid impulse to travel as an escape from some painful sexual situation.

In psychiatry, the origin of erotic impulses. Freud suggested that the sexual instincts in humans are complex and result from impulses coming from several sources, among them the oral, anal, and phallic zones.

In psychiatry, relating to or having its origin in the libidinal or erotic instinct; commonly applied to libidinal impulses that are expressed through special body areas or erotogenic zones (genitals, mouth, anus, urethra).

Arising from erotic desires.