Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to diminish sexual desire; pertaining to anaphrodisia, or to anaphrodisiacs.
- noun That which dulls or diminishes sexual appetite, as a drug, bathing, etc.; an antaphrodisiac.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Med.) Same as
antaphrodisiac .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
antaphrodisiac - noun Any substance that inhibits, reduces, or eliminates sexual desire and/or libido.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to diminish sexual desire
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Examples
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But rarely have images of female breasts, buttocks and pudenda been so anaphrodisiac.
Shining a Light on Loss William Meyers 2011
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Here it stems from a yapping poodle that acts as a crucial anaphrodisiac and which, even in death, shows an astonishing capacity to nip ankles.
Once Bitten – review 2011
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For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose.
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There is something anaphrodisiac about having a shelf full of someone's complete works from the library, I got a lot of A. L. Kennedy on that same trip and though I absolutely loved her novel Paradise having all her books sitting there (and they're short-story collections mostly, so not so much my cup of tea) left me unmoved to take up and read (Augustine!)
The grammar of skyscrapers and pavement Jenny Davidson 2006
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Hops are also considered a mild anaphrodisiac and thus calms sexual excitement as well.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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This may explain their anaphrodisiac effects on men.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Hence bromide of potassium -- or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action -- is used as a hypnotic, as the standard anaphrodisiac, as a sedative in mania and all forms of morbid mental excitement, and in hyperaesthesia of all kinds.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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It may be doubted, however, whether there is any satisfactory and reliable anaphrodisiac.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Camphor has an ancient reputation as an anaphrodisiac, and its use in this respect was known to the Arabs
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Charcot, indeed, it is said, used to declare that the only anaphrodisiac in which he had any confidence was that used by the uncle of Heloïse in the case of Abelard.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
bilby commented on the word anaphrodisiac
"The great difference between ancient and modern beautification/mutilation procedures is that nowadays we must conceal the fact of the procedure itself. The association of sculpted breasts with pain is anaphrodisiac, so much so, that a man who guesses that what he is admiring was produced by a knife, may lose all interest. Some women may boast of their cosmetic operations, but this is a safety valve against the possibility they will be found out."
- 'One man's mutilation is another man's beautification', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
September 1, 2008