Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pornological

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pornolog-i-cal
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing the sex act and sexual perversions.

Example Sentences

"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 girl"
"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."

Etymology

From pornology + -ical.

Questions

What does pornological mean?: Describing the sex act and sexual perversions.
Where does pornological come from?: From pornology + -ical.

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