anaphrodisia
(s) (noun), anaphrodisias
(pl)
Repressing or destroying sexual desire: "A side effect of the strong medication resulted in a condition of anaphrodisia."
Something which decreases sexual desires: "In order to safely transport the stallion with the other horses, the veterinarian gave him an anaphrodisiac injection."
anaphroditic
1. Produced asexually.
2. Produced without concourse of sexes.
A concourse of sexes refers to the act of coming together; so, in this case plants or animals that reproduce without coming together sexually.
aphrodisia
A desire for heterosexual intimacy.
aphrodisiac
1. An aphrodisiac food, drug, potion, or other agent that arouses sexual desire.
2. A drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire.
3. Arousing or intensifying sexual desire.
aphrodisiacal
Arousing sexual desire.
aphrodisiacs
1. Drugs that stimulate a sexual response.
2. Something, usually a drug or food, which is believed to cause sexual desire in people.
aphrodisian
Pertaining to Aphrodite or Venus.
Aphrodisias
A Pre-Classical and Classical city on the meander River of southwest Turkey with extant remains of the Roman period, including an agora (open space, serving as a commercial, political, religious, and social center in ancient Greece), odeum,
temple of Aphrodite, and baths.
There also was an abundance of free-standing statues. The Pre-Classical mounds show Late Neolithic occupation and a sequence of Late Chalcolithic to Late Bronze Age artifacts.
aphrodisiomania
1. An abnormally powerful sexual excitement or desire.
2. An excessive erotic interest.
3. A morbid desire for venery.
aphrodita
1. In zoology, a genus of the order of Molluscas; also known as, "sea-mouse".
The body is oval, with many small protuberances or tentacles on each side, which serve as feet. The mouth is cylindrical, at one end of the body, with two bristly tentacles, which are capable of being retracted.
2. From Aphrodite, so called from Greek, froth, from which the goddess was supposed to have been produced.
aphrodite
1. A soft opaque milk-white mineral, consisting mostly of bisilicate of magnesium, allied to Sepiolite or meerschaum.
2. In the sense of foam-stone.
Aphrodite
The goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with the Roman goddess Venus.
hermaphrodite
(s), hermaphrodites
(pl) (nouns)
1. An animal or plant having both male and female reproductive organs: "Hermaphrodites are organisms; such as, earthworms or flowering plants, having both male and female reproductive organs in a single individual."
2. Etymology: through Middle English, hermofrodite, from the Latin element hermaphroditus, which came from Greek hermaphroditos, from Hermaphroditos, the son of Aphrodite and Hermes (Latin: Mercury and Venus) who merged into one form or became joined in body with the nymph Salmacis.
Relating to those creatures that have the sex organs of both genders in one body: "There are several hermaphroditic animals or plants that contain both male and female reproductive systems."
Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units:
-cest;
eroto-;
lagneuo-;
-lagnia;
masochism;
porno-;
Sadism-;
satyr-;
sex-;
sodom-;
whore.