noun Uncommon
pornography
paw-NOG-ruh-fee
Pornography (noun) means Written, visual, or filmed material that explicitly depicts sexual activity, mainly intended to arouse.
noun
1
Written, visual, or filmed material that explicitly depicts sexual activity, mainly intended to arouse.
"The library computers have filters that block pornography."
2
Informally, media that dwells gratuitously on a subject to produce an intense, almost erotic fascination.
"The news coverage of the crash bordered on disaster pornography."
How to Use Pornography
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishSexually explicit material meant to arouse, or, loosely, any content that gratuitously indulges a fascination with a topic.
Word Forms
pornographied past tense, pornographies plural, pornographies singular
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Etymology
Borrowed from French pornographie, itself built from Greek roots meaning "writing about prostitutes".
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Rhymes for pornography
geography
biography
topography
photography
calligraphy
bibliography
choreography
autobiography
chromatography
cinematography
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