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pornography Definition


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pornography
noun
    1. Books, pictures, films, etc designed to be sexually arousing, often offensive owing to their explicit nature. Often shortened to porn or porno. See also hard porn, soft porn.
Derivative: pornographer
noun
    Derivative: pornographic
    adj
      Sexually arousing in an explicit way, thereby often causing offence
        Thesaurus: lewd, indecent, obscene, offensive, filthy, dirty, blue (slang), smutty, bawdy, coarse, prurient, off-colour (US), X-rated, risqué, salacious; Antonym: innocent, inoffensive.
    Derivative: pornographically
    adverb
      Etymology: 19c: from Greek pornographos writing about prostitutes, from porne prostitute + graphein to write.



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