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eros

noun

ˈer-ˌäs How to pronounce eros (audio)
Definition of erosnext
as in lust
intense sexual desire dedicated to the poet's lover, the sonnet has eros as its theme

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  1. lust
  2. passion
  3. eroticism
  4. concupiscence
Noun
  • Scott’s Tom Ripley was a clean break from that of Matt Damon; instead of a petulant pretty boy seized by envy and lust, this Ripley was older (Scott is in his late forties) and scarier, a lonesome manipulator with a murderous gleam in his eye.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Slater’s mansion is terra-cotta red, which in cinematic color theory signals danger and lust; the snakes on the island are yellow, for sickness and deceit.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of lust
Noun
  • Earlier this year, Saoirse Ronan returned to the screen with a double header: Steve McQueen’s World War II film Blitz, and her passion project, The Outrun, a drama about a woman just out of rehab.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Lili Reinhart just celebrated the launch of Personal Day skincare, a passion project three years in the making.
    Dahvi Shira, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of passion
Noun
  • Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The brief screen time doesn’t detract from the fact that his scenes are among the film’s most impactful — and not just because of the eroticism alone.
    James Factora, Them, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of eroticism
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  • Gregory of Nyssa, contemplating the Christian horror of concupiscence, once theorized that had not Adam and Eve sinned, the two of them would have remained virgins and reproduced in whatever way angels did.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
  • The depictions are disturbingly romantic: seminude invaders among smoldering monuments, preening with bloodlust and concupiscence.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
Definition of concupiscence
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“Eros.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eros. Accessed 14 Dec. 2024.

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