单词 | pornography |
释义 | pornography[ pawr-nog-ruh-fee ] / pɔrˈnɒg rə fi / SEE SYNONYMS FOR pornography ON THESAURUS.COM nounsexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal. Origin of pornography1840–50; <Greek pornográph(os) writing about harlots (porno-, combining form of pórnē harlot + -graphos-graph) + -y3 OTHER WORDS FROM pornographyWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH pornographylewd, obscene, pornographic , profanatory, profaneWords nearby pornographyporky, porn, pornification, pornocracy, pornographer, pornography, porny, porocele, porokeratosis, poroma, poromeric Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pornographyBritish Dictionary definitions for pornographypornography / (pɔːˈnɒɡrəfɪ) / nounwritings, pictures, films, etc, designed to stimulate sexual excitement the production of such material Sometimes (informal) shortened to: porn, porno Derived forms of pornographypornographer, nounpornographic (ˌpɔːnəˈɡræfɪk), adjectivepornographically, adverbWord Origin for pornographyC19: from Greek pornographos writing of harlots, from pornē a harlot + graphein to write Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for pornographypornography Books, photographs, magazines, art, or music designed to excite sexual impulses and considered by public authorities or public opinion as in violation of accepted standards of sexual morality. American courts have not yet settled on a satisfactory definition of what constitutes pornographic material. (See obscenity.) The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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