EROS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eros mean? 

• EROS (noun)
  The noun EROS has 2 senses:

1. (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid

2. a desire for sexual intimacy

  Familiarity information: EROS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EROS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Derivation:

erotic (giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A desire for sexual intimacy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

concupiscence; eros; physical attraction; sexual desire

Hypernyms ("eros" is a kind of...):

desire (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eros"):

erotic love; love; sexual love (a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction)

aphrodisia (a desire for heterosexual intimacy)

anaphrodisia (decline or absence of sexual desire)

passion (a feeling of strong sexual desire)

sensualism; sensuality; sensualness (desire for sensual pleasures)

amativeness; amorousness; eroticism; erotism; sexiness (the arousal of feelings of sexual desire)

fetish (a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body)

libido ((psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire)

lecherousness; lust; lustfulness (a strong sexual desire)

nymphomania (abnormally intense sexual desire in women)

satyriasis (abnormally intense sexual desire in men)

the hots (intense sexual desire)

Derivation:

erotic (giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing)