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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 is pronounced /ɪˈɹɑtɪkə/ — i-RAH-ti-kuh. 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.