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Opposite vs Heteroerotic - What's the difference?

opposite | heteroerotic |

As adjectives the difference between opposite and heteroerotic

is that opposite is located directly across from something else, or from each other while heteroerotic is sexual desire of or attraction to a person of the opposite gender.

As a noun opposite

is something opposite or contrary to another.

As an adverb opposite

is in an opposite position.

As a preposition opposite

is facing, or across from.

opposite

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Adjective

(-)
  • Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
    • She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
  • Facing in the other direction.
    • They were moving in opposite directions.
  • Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
    • He has a lot of success with the opposite sex.
  • Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
  • * Dryden
    • Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem.
  • * John Locke
    • Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite , significations.

    Derived terms

    * opposite sex

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something opposite or contrary to another.
  • An opponent.
  • An antonym.
    • "Up" is the opposite of "down".
  • (mathematics) An additive inverse.

    • Derived terms

    * opposites attract

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In an opposite position.
    • I was on my seat and she stood opposite .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Facing, or across from.
  • :
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
  • In a complementary role to.
  • :

    • See also

    * apposite

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    heteroerotic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • sexual desire of or attraction to a person of the opposite gender
  • * 2005, James L. Miller, Dante & the Unorthodox: the Aesthetics of Transgression , Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, page 216:
    • The heteroerotic topos of the lover's fascinated gaze, drawn irresistibly to the face and especially the eyes of his beloved, is not hard to discern behind the parodic cruising of the Thieves.

    Antonyms

    * homoerotic

    Related terms

    * analloerotic

    Derived terms

    * heteroeroticism

    References

    * 2007, Curt Boenheim, Introduction to Present Day Psychology , Read Books, page 59