Pornography

Noun

 * 1) The explicit depiction of sexual subject matter, especially with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer.
 * "What is pornography to one man, is the laughter of genius to another." by D.H. Lawrence as cited on page 10's "Confining the Pornography Dragon" by The Cambridge Law Journal in issue 1980.
 * 1) humorous 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. (Seattle Times, Auhust 4, 2002)

Thesaurus
French literature, Rabelaisianism, Renaissance literature, X-rated movie, ancient literature, bawdiness, bawdry, belles lettres, blue movie, classics, contemporary literature, dirt, dirtiness, dirty movie, erotic art, erotic literature, erotica, erotographomania, fescenninity, filth, filthiness, folk literature, foulness, humane letters, iconolagny, kitsch, letters, lewdness, literature, medieval literature, nastiness, national literature, obscene literature, obscenity, offensiveness, polite literature, pop literature, popular literature, porn, pornographic art, pornographic literature, pornographomania, pseudonymous literature, republic of letters, ribaldry, salaciousness, salacity, scatological literature, scurrility, serious literature, sexploitation, skin flick, smut, smuttiness, soft-core pornography, stag film, travel literature, underground literature, vileness, wisdom literature

Etymology
From πορνογράφος:, from πόρνη: + γράφω:.

Translations

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 * Azeri: pornoqrafiya
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 * Irish: pornagrafaíocht
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 * Japanese: ポルノグラフィー, ポルノ, 猥褻, 猥本
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 * Persian: هرزه‌نگاری,
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 * Scottish Gaelic: drùiseantachd, drabasdachd
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 * Tagalog: pornograpiya
 * Tamil: போர்னோகிராபி, பாலுணர்வுக் கிளர்ச்சியம்
 * Ukrainian: порнографія
 * Uzbek: pornografiya
 * Yiddish: פארנאגראפיע

Derived terms

 * porn
 * porno
 * porny
 * porn star
 * pornographer
 * pornographic
 * pornographically