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Erogenous vs Orogenous - What's the difference?

erogenous | orogenous |

As adjectives the difference between erogenous and orogenous

is that erogenous is sensitive to sexual arousal while orogenous is of or relating to mountain-building; orogenic.

erogenous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sensitive to sexual arousal.
  • * 2001 , , Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p. 254,
    • His neck, shoulders, upper back, and spine were erogenous zones.
  • Causing sexual arousal, erotogenic.

    • Related terms

    * erogenous zone

    orogenous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to mountain-building; orogenic.
  • * 1970 , Proceedings of the United Nations Symposium on the Development and Utilisation of Geothermal Resources , vol. 2, part 2, page 1229:
    • Within the remaining young circumpacific orogenous belt there are mainly two regions of special interest with regard to geothermal conditions left for consideration...
  • * 1980 , Earth Rheology, Isostasy, and Eustasy , Nils-Axel Morner (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, page 428:
    • The Fergana intermountain depression falls into the orogenous class structures...
    Being part of post-Paleozoic activation region it has gone through a number of orogenous epochs...
  • * 1993 L.P. Zonenshain Memorial Conference on Plate Tectonics: Programme and Abstracts , page 27:
    • [O]rogenous uplifts grow continuously...
  • * 1999 Jean Terschuren, "Action plan for Cypripedium calceolus in Europe", in Nature and Environment No. 100, page 42:
    • Orogenous spruce, larch and arolla, mountain pine forests and plantations
    Western Palaearcic orogenous spruce forests

    Related terms

    * orogenous zone