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pornological

pornological adjective: describing the sex act and sexual perversions.

Adjective

pornological (not comparable)

  1. Describing the sex act and sexual perversions.
    • The suspect impetus behind Stephen's recurrent desire for confession becomes clearest when it expresses itself as an urge to write pornological letters, intended not for a forgiving priest, of course, but for an innocent and unsuspecting girl2014, Kimberley J. Devlin, Wandering and Return in "Finnegans Wake": An Integrative Approach to Joyce's Fictions
    • His literary analysis of Masoch and Sade served to demonstrate not only the difference between both authors, but it also helped to identify and extract the pornological language that characterizes their respective works.2015, Monica Ingber, The Politics of Conflict: Transubstantiatory Violence in Iraq, →ISBN

Origin of pornological

From pornology + -ical.

Questions about pornological

What does pornological mean?
Pornological means describing the sex act and sexual perversions.
What part of speech is pornological?
Pornological is an adjective.

Words near pornological in the dictionary

  1. pornogrind
  2. pornoholic
  3. pornoholics
  4. pornoisseur
  5. pornoisseurs
  6. pornological
  7. pornology
  8. pornomania
  9. pornomaniac
  10. pornomaniacs
  11. pornonormative

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