'Pornography' definitions:
Definition of 'pornography'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Pornography'
From: GCIDE
- Pornography \Por*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? a harlot + -graphy.]
- 1. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution. [1913 Webster]
- 3. obscene pictures, writings, drawings, motion pictures, videos, or the like intended primarily to cause sexual arousal and having little or no artistic merit; also, the content of such materials. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'pornography'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- French literature,
- 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,
- Rabelaisianism,
- Renaissance 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,
- X-rated movie