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por⋅nog⋅ra⋅phy

  [pawr-nog-ruh-fee]
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–noun
obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.
Origin:
1840–50; < Gk pornográph(os) writing about harlots (porno-, comb. form of pórnē harlot + -graphos -graph ) + -y 3

Related forms:
por⋅no⋅graph⋅ic  [pawr-nuh-graf-ik] , adjective
por⋅no⋅graph⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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por·nog·ra·phy   (pôr-nŏg'rə-fē)   
n.  
  1. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
  2. The presentation or production of this material.
  3. Lurid or sensational material: "Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the ... pornography of the era" (Morris Dickstein).

[French pornographie, from pornographe, pornographer, from Late Greek pornographos, writing about prostitutes : pornē, prostitute; see per-5 in Indo-European roots + graphein, to write; see -graphy.]
por·nog'ra·pher n., por'no·graph'ic (pôr'nə-grāf'ĭk) adj., por'no·graph'i·cal·ly adv.
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Pornographic

Por`no*graph"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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