pornography
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pornography
- /pɔːˈnɒɡ.ɹə.fi/ UK
- /pɔɹˈnɑ.ɡɹə.fi/ US
Rhymes with -ɒɡɹəfi
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Borrowed from French pornographie. By surface analysis, porno- + -graphy.
noun pornographies
- The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature. Many websites have a complete ban on pornography.
- The depiction of (non-sexual) subject matter so that it elicits feelings analogous to erotic pleasure; any such depiction. "It's true," Vanya now, "look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of deduction — ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer — all these novels, these films and
- The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something. In The Four Pillars of Wisdom, he devotes a well-deserved chapter to the financial press and its weakness for "financial pornography"—lurid coverage of star money managers.
Similar: adult content, erotica, filth, hentai, lewdness, NSFW, obscenity, porn, porno, pr0n, pron, Rule 34, smut, smvt, XXX, 🌽
verb pornographies · pornographying · pornographied
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To turn into pornography.
Their very being is so pornographied by automated content filters that they are largely barred from sexual expression online.
Similar: pornify
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: porn, porno, softcore, erotic, sex, sexual, paedophile, prostitution, child, obscenity, obscene, vice, smut, wong, yellow, huang
Translations
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noun depiction of sexual subject matter with prurient intent
| Español | pornografía |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 포르노그래피 poreunogeuraepi, 포르노 poreuno, 외설 oeseol |
| 日本語 | ポルノグラフィ porunogurafi, ポルノ poruno, 猥褻 waisetsu, 猥本 waihon |
| 中文 | 色情 sèqíng, 春宮 /春宫 chūngōng, 黃片 /黄片 huángpiàn, A片 ēi-piàn, 毛片 máopiàn |
| हिन्दी | रतिचित्रण raticitraṇ, अश्लील फ़िल्म aślīl film |
| Kiswahili | ponografia |
| Português | pornografia |
| Français | pornographie |
| Deutsch | Pornografie |
| Italiano | pornografia |
| Ελληνικά | πορνογραφία pornografía |
| Română | pornografie |
| Русский | порногра́фия pornográfija, порну́ха pornúxa |
| Tiếng Việt | khiêu dâm |
| العربية | إِبَاحِيَّة ʔibāḥiyya |
| עברית | פּוֹרְנוֹגְרַפְיָה pornografya |
Talk about this word "pornography." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pornography. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pornography. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pornography "pornography." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pornography.Cite this
@misc{pornography_2026,
title = {pornography},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pornography},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
