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say it: i-RAH-ti-kuh
erotica is a noun meaning "creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire". It carries one recorded sense.
creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for erotica come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.