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Meaning of "pornotopia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PORNOTOPIA

pornotopia  [ˌpɔːnəˈtəʊpɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORNOTOPIA

noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pornotopia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PORNOTOPIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pornotopia

Pornotopia is a term coined by the critic Steven Marcus to describe the idealised, imaginative space of pornography, and used more broadly to describe a fantasy state dominated by universal sexual activity. Daniel Bell saw the hedonistic promotion of pornotopia in late capitalism as paradoxically undercutting the very virtues of bourgeois sobriety upon which capitalism was originally built.

Definition of pornotopia in the English dictionary

The definition of pornotopia in the dictionary is a fantasy state or place in which everyone is willing to indulge in sexual activity, esp. the setting for pornographic literature.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PORNOTOPIA


amblyopia
ˌæmblɪˈəʊpɪə
anisometropia
ænˌaɪsəʊməˈtrəʊpɪə
cacotopia
ˌkækəˈtəʊpɪə
cecropia
sɪˈkrəʊpɪə
cornucopia
ˌkɔːnjʊˈkəʊpɪə
diplopia
dɪˈpləʊpɪə
dystopia
dɪsˈtəʊpɪə
ectopia
ɛkˈtəʊpɪə
esotropia
ˌɛsəˈtrəʊpɪə
Ethiopia
ˌiːθɪˈəʊpɪə
exotropia
ˌeksəˈtrəʊpɪə
hemianopia
ˌhɛmɪænˈəʊpɪə
heterotopia
ˌhɛtərəʊˈtəʊpɪə
hyperopia
ˌhaɪpəˈrəʊpɪə
myopia
maɪˈəʊpɪə
photopia
fəʊˈtəʊpɪə
presbyopia
ˌprɛzbɪˈəʊpɪə
scotopia
skəˈtəʊpɪə
subtopia
sʌbˈtəʊpɪə
Utopia
juːˈtəʊpɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORNOTOPIA

porn
pornaoke
pornification
porno
pornocracy
pornographer
pornographic
pornographically
pornography
pornomag
pornotopian
porny
porogamic
porogamy
poromeric
poroscope
poroscopic
poroscopy
porose
porosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORNOTOPIA

ametropia
anopia
asthenopia
atropia
deuteranopia
emmetropia
haplopia
hemeralopia
hemiopia
hypermetropia
isometropia
meropia
nyctalopia
palinopia
protanopia
senopia
tritanopia

Synonyms and antonyms of pornotopia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pornotopia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORNOTOPIA

Find out the translation of pornotopia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pornotopia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pornotopia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

pornotopia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Pornotopía
570 millions of speakers

English

pornotopia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pornotopia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pornotopia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pornotopia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pornotopia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pornotopia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pornotopia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pornotopia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pornotopia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

pornotopia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pornotopia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pornotopia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pornotopia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pornotopia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोर्नोटॉपिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pornotopia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pornotopia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pornotopia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pornotopia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pornotopia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pornotopia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pornotopia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pornotopia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pornotopia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pornotopia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORNOTOPIA»

The term «pornotopia» is used very little and occupies the 153.587 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORNOTOPIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pornotopia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORNOTOPIA»

Discover the use of pornotopia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pornotopia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Designing Pornotopia: Travels in Visual Culture
This book shows how commerce exploits the blurring of art and advertising, and paints a vivid, not always comfortable picture of where 21st century design culture is heading.
Rick Poynor, 2006
2
Community, Space and Online Censorship: Regulating Pornotopia
This book compares the Australian solution to internet regulation, a set of laws which have been criticised as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US, and will be a valuable guide for anyone ...
Dr Scott Beattie, 2013
3
Pornotopia
Is it fantasy or reality? Uptight co-ed Iris has to figure that out, when her sexual fantasies begin spilling over into her daily life. But will she have too much fun to bother solving the mystery?
Nureruru, 2001
4
Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation
Pornotopia: Dennis. Cooper. on. the. Extremities. of. Being. You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. — Hamlet 5.5.19-20 Perhaps our true sexual act consists in this: in verifying to the point of giddiness the ...
Earl Jackson, Jr., 1995
5
Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives
I suppose that no essay on women in Utopia can afford to ignore that one imaginary place where women seemingly have so much prominence, that land that Steven Marcus has called pornotopia, where “every time is bedtime.”20 Not that ...
Elaine Baruch, 2012
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography ...
Chapter. 7: CONCLUSION: PORNOTOPIA. T. Xhere is a passage in one of Max Weber's great essays on the methodology of the social sciences which is pertinent to our discussion. In it Weber is struggling to define with absolute rigor and ...
‎2008
7
Encounter
So is pornotopia, although the special ways in which it represents its exemption need to be specified. To the question "What time is it in pornotopia?" one is tempted to answer, "It is always bed-time," for that is in a literal sense true. Sometimes ...
‎1966
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Encounter
So is pornotopia, although the special ways in which it represents its exemption need to be specified. To the question "What time is it in pornotopia?" one is tempted to answer, "It is always bed-time," for that is in a literal sense true. Sometimes ...
Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, 1966
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Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies
I suppose that no essay on women in utopia can afford to ignore that one imaginary place where women seemingly have so much prominence, that land that Steven Marcus has called pornotopia, where "every time is bedtime." Not that there is ...
‎1979
10
Colorado Quarterly
Sexuality in literature HENRY WINTHROP THE RECOGNITION OF PORNOTOPIA In December, 1968, at a conference held at Princeton under the auspices of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, Daniel Bell made the following ...
‎1972

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORNOTOPIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pornotopia is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Charms of Literary Arousal
... coming close to Samuel R. Delany's notions of pornotopia with its tree copulation, groan rooms, sapient creatures assembled from naughty ... «Reluctant Habits, Apr 15»
2
Review> Eroticizing Everyday Architecture
In the decidedly academic Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics, Preciado follows the origins of Hugh Hefner's ... «The Architect's Newspaper, Mar 15»
3
'Pornotopia' festival kicks off Thursday in Nob Hill
A festival celebrating all things sex kicks off Thursday night in Nob Hill. It's called "Pornotopia", and it's being held at The Guild Cinema on ... «KOB.com, Nov 14»
4
Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics, by …
There are a few things you should know about this book. First, it is a republication of a doctoral thesis that appeared in book form in Spanish in ... «Times Higher Education, Oct 14»
5
Not Fade Away 2012: Call Me Maybe, by Carly Rae Jepsen
Call Me Maybe is a song that suggests that teenage crushes aren't quite the pornotopia hip-hop and R&B videos might suggest. It's about looking sideways at ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 14»
6
Paula Bomer (The Bat Segundo Show #546)
... Delany's idea of pornotopia, religion in “The Shitty Handshake,” “Lightning,” Bill Burr, Scientology vs. the Catholic religion, belief and fantasy, ... «Reluctant Habits, May 14»
7
Art books of the year – review
For Jones, Renaissance painting is a pornotopia, and the artists he studies are sexual radicals, flagrantly disrupting convention. Their scandals ... «The Guardian, Dec 13»
8
Pornography Film Festival Is Back In Action
It hasn't exactly been a day at the movies for Pornotopia's creators though. They, along with the owner of an Albuquerque movie theater, have ... «KUNM, Oct 13»
9
Nicholson Baker (The Bat Segundo Show #520)
... life where nobody is asking you to do anything, the trancelike state of being bored, House of Holes, Samuel R. Delany's notion of pornotopia, ... «Reluctant Habits, Oct 13»
10
No Zoning Violation in Art House Porn Festival
(CN) - A movie theater did not become an adult-entertainment business by hosting a three-day "Pornotopia" film festival in 2008, the New ... «Courthouse News Service, Oct 13»

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