English Dictionary

pornography

IPA（発音記号）

/pɔː(ɹ)ˈnɒɡ.ɹə.fi/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 広義 ユーモラス文体

The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature.

日本語の意味

性的な内容を露骨に描写する文学作品や映像など、エロティックな素材そのものの表現を指す。 / わいせつな表現を含む文学的または視覚的描写。

The university organized a panel to discuss how pornography influences young people's perceptions of relationships.

大学は、露骨な性的内容が若者の人間関係に対する認識にどのように影響するかを議論するパネルを開催した。

意味（1）

The explicit literary or visual depiction of sexual subject matter; any display of material of an erotic nature.

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

意味（2）

(by extension) The depiction of (non-sexual) subject matter so that it elicits feelings analogous to erotic pleasure; any such depiction.

It's true, Vanya now, look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of deduction — ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer — all these novels, these films and songs and they lull us with, they're approaches, more comfortable and less so, to that Absolute Comfort. A pause to allow Rudi a quick and sour grin, The self-induced orgasm.

意味（3）

(usually 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.

pornographies （ plural ）