WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
por•nog•ra•phy /pɔrˈnɑgrəfi/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- writings, photographs, movies, etc., intended to arouse sexual excitement, esp. such materials considered as having little or no artistic merit:What constitutes pornography, some say, is in the eye of the beholder.
por•nog•ra•phy
(pôr nog′rə fē),USA pronunciation n.
por•no•graph•ic
(pôr′nə graf′ik),USA pronunciation adj.
por′no•graph′i•cal•ly, adv.
- obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.
- Greek pornográph(os) writing about harlots (porno-, combining form of pórnē harlot + -graphos -graph) + -y3
- 1840–50;