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explornography

noun

Etymology

Blend of explore + pornography, coined by columnist John Tierney.

  1. derived from πορνογράφος
  2. derived from pornographie
  3. compounded as explornography — “explore + pornography”

Definitions

  1. A fascination with historic explorations, particularly by reenacting them.

    • 1998, John Tierney, “Explornography: The Vicarious thrill of Exploring When There's Nothing Left to Explore”, The New York Times Magazine, July 26, section 6, page 18+ Age of Exploration has been succeeded by the Age of Explornography

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for explornography. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA