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[novapsyche]

When you say someone is "hot," what do you mean? Be as specific as possible.

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[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

It usually means I find them physically attractive (according to MY definition, not necessarily a societal definition of physically attractive). It usually has something to do with them projecting sexy vibes, too. There's a difference between merely attractive and sexy; you can be aesthetically pleasing to look at, but not give off that vibe that you're a highly sexual person.

[mr-quackenbush.livejournal.com]

it means i want to have sex with them. as such, what is hot varies inversely to my general sexual agitation.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

Sexually attractive. Whether I actually want to have sex with them is a seperate issue.

[guttaperk.livejournal.com]

Sexually attractive. That will likely involve some combination of physical appeal, and intellectual appeal/ sense of humour.

Minimum-to-qualify thresholds for each do apply, but once both thresholds are met, the more of one you have, the less of the other you need.

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

Intensely desirable... the feeling is very much akin to wanting to eat or consume someone (not literally, but metaphorically).

It usually encompasses a combination of aesthetic pleasingness (physical appearance, style, the way someone moves) and intellectual and spiritual intensity. Not that just intelligence, but a passion for an intellectual or spiritual pursuit.

I also usually spell it "hott" when I'm talking about this (a convention I picked up from tyrsalvia, who is the definition of "hott").

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

i tend to.... not really dissect people per se, but find different aspects of them to be "hot". that being said, i never really associated "hot" with sex, but i can see the correlation now. someone who is hot stirs up something lower than a gut reaction, an instantaneous tightening that acts as your very own siskel and ebert. so i guess part of what is hot is instinctively physical reaction, for me, but i agree with the other comments, that there is more. sexy does not mean i would personally do them, but someone can have things about them that are hot. so i guess when i say someone is hot, it means i am drawn to them on some level. some people i have found hot for their geekiness, some for their bodies, some their style, some i couldn't say why. maybe they have a tasty spicy aura. that said, i don't think i have standards for "hot". it kind of works on a case by case basis.

so the short version of all this: it means i find them attractive, but not necessarily based on physical appearance, and not necessarily sexually attractive, though hoy and sexy do seem to go hand in hand most often.

[ryoganox.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the brainstorming style below:

Hot = something or someone that is sexually arousing. Often involving, but not limited to, one of my fetishes.

I agree with the people above when they say someone can be sexy, attractive, and/or Hot(t). 9/10 times I use the term hot to reflect something someone is/has doing/done. So for me it is not necessarily the individual needed to be hot, but the environment/situation. Often attitude and body language influence my definition of things.

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

omg you are so hot!

[ryoganox.livejournal.com]

Gah! runs around on fire.

[tmbgman.livejournal.com]

Generally it means they're past the point where they need a personality to attract me.

[thefirespiral.livejournal.com]

I usually mean they make me feel kind of hot and tingly -- yes, definitely it's about sex, but not necessarily about conventional physical attractiveness.

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

someone?
sexy.
something?
effective, concise, direct, elegant, assured, disturbing, hard-hitting, masterful.
something like, a dance performance, an interaction, an experiment, or an idea. even the right suit can be all of that.
oh, thats hot.
someone is hot when they are adept at doing things that are hot.
masterful is a bit telling, i think. but i wasn't thinking about sex, i was thinking about art, work and science. a masterpiece, a masterstroke, epiphany, eureka, brilliance.

and... any strutting gait shot in slow motion with a wind machine and theme music.
I suppose hot is not timid, unless you are the best damn timid there could be. hot is simply as good as it gets.
hot is my lover practcicng martial arts forms.
hot is his mother, recently a lawyer, relating how she had a brilliant new idea while standing in front of the judge, argued it perfectly ran logical circles around her opponent and won the case.
hot is me, doing anything I love enough to do without thinking too much about it. hot is zen.
arg.
I'm totally procrastinating...bye.

Ranked in order of the frequency of my usage

[kali-ma.livejournal.com]

Meaning #1. I mean the person is overly warm, as in having a fever or need to sit down and cool off before they get heat exhaustion.

Meaning #2. I think the perosn is very physically attractive.

Meaning 3#: I mean the person is extremely popular/famous and appears to becoming more so.

[m0n90053.livejournal.com]

There are other terms that I use for lesser degrees of attraction, and sometimes the distinctions get a little blurry, but if I was to come up to you and point someone out, and say, "She's hot," and when you looked and shrugged, I would say, "No, I mean, she's really really hot!!!", then what I mesan is:

I get aroused just watching her.
If it's not a first-time encounter, I have gotten aroused thinking about being with her. Sometimes not even thinking about being with her, but just thinking about her, although this would usually include viewing of her naked form- but, clothed or naked, present or absent, does not necessarily entail fantasizing about sex. On the other hand, fantasizing about sex with this person leads to a state of arousal such that masturbation is pretty much mandatory (unless you can fantasize about having sex with someone else while you're having sex with the one you love and not feel guilty about it...)