"competence porn" meaning in All languages combined

See competence porn on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-competence porn.ogg
Etymology: competence + porn (“material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a lurid, garish, or sensational manner”), coined by John Rogers in a 2009 blog post about the TNT drama Leverage which he created. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} competence porn (uncountable)
  1. Entertainment featuring competent characters carrying out difficult tasks with great aptitude. Wikipedia link: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, The Strand Magazine, The Valley of Fear Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Entertainment Coordinate_terms: foodporn, property porn
    Sense id: en-competence_porn-en-noun-Ei-VnvWt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_text": "competence + porn (“material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a lurid, garish, or sensational manner”), coined by John Rogers in a 2009 blog post about the TNT drama Leverage which he created.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "competence porn (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "com‧pe‧tence"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Entertainment",
          "orig": "en:Entertainment",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "foodporn"
        },
        {
          "word": "property porn"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 August 11, John Rogers, “LEVERAGE #204 ‘The Fairy Godparents Job’ Post-game”, in Kung Fu Monkey (blog), archived from the original on 2016-03-31:",
          "text": "Good Lord, how we agonized over spending so much time in the briefing scene in this ep. Ironically, this episode arrived just as we were collating feedback off the 'net and found, stunningly, you people love the briefing scenes. For we writers, it was always X pages of pipe we tried to make as entertaining as possible and move past to get into the plot. For the audience, watching competent people banter and plan was a big part of the appeal. \"Competence porn\" as we started calling it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 9, Lewis Dartnell, “Are you hooked on competence porn?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2015-10-07:",
          "text": "Turn on the TV right now and you'll probably find an avalanche of competence porn. Think about the fast-talking dialogue and political strategising of the characters in House of Cards, the medical acumen of House, the deductive brilliance of Sherlock Holmes (in any of the recent BBC, CBS or Warner Brothers adaptations), and the ingenious bushcraft of Bear Grylls.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 October 9, Sharan Shetty, “The Martian is not ‘competence porn’”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2016-03-25:",
          "text": "“[C]ompetence porn,” has been thrown around by many critics in describing The Martian. John Rogers, creator of erstwhile TNT drama Leverage, coined the term in 2009, when he and his writers realized that viewers were addicted to the show’s pipe-laying, jargon-laden briefing scenes. “Competence porn” is a truly excellent phrase for an old phenomenon; the frisson of watching smart people tackle tasks with freaky aptitude dates as far back as Robinson Crusoe.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Entertainment featuring competent characters carrying out difficult tasks with great aptitude."
      ],
      "id": "en-competence_porn-en-noun-Ei-VnvWt",
      "links": [
        [
          "Entertainment",
          "entertainment"
        ],
        [
          "competent",
          "competent"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "aptitude",
          "aptitude"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Arthur Conan Doyle",
        "Sherlock Holmes",
        "The Strand Magazine",
        "The Valley of Fear"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-competence porn.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-au-competence_porn.ogg/En-au-competence_porn.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-au-competence_porn.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "competence porn"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "foodporn"
    },
    {
      "word": "property porn"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "competence + porn (“material, usually visual, presenting something desirable in a lurid, garish, or sensational manner”), coined by John Rogers in a 2009 blog post about the TNT drama Leverage which he created.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "competence porn (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "com‧pe‧tence"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Entertainment"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 August 11, John Rogers, “LEVERAGE #204 ‘The Fairy Godparents Job’ Post-game”, in Kung Fu Monkey (blog), archived from the original on 2016-03-31:",
          "text": "Good Lord, how we agonized over spending so much time in the briefing scene in this ep. Ironically, this episode arrived just as we were collating feedback off the 'net and found, stunningly, you people love the briefing scenes. For we writers, it was always X pages of pipe we tried to make as entertaining as possible and move past to get into the plot. For the audience, watching competent people banter and plan was a big part of the appeal. \"Competence porn\" as we started calling it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 9, Lewis Dartnell, “Are you hooked on competence porn?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, archived from the original on 2015-10-07:",
          "text": "Turn on the TV right now and you'll probably find an avalanche of competence porn. Think about the fast-talking dialogue and political strategising of the characters in House of Cards, the medical acumen of House, the deductive brilliance of Sherlock Holmes (in any of the recent BBC, CBS or Warner Brothers adaptations), and the ingenious bushcraft of Bear Grylls.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 October 9, Sharan Shetty, “The Martian is not ‘competence porn’”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2016-03-25:",
          "text": "“[C]ompetence porn,” has been thrown around by many critics in describing The Martian. John Rogers, creator of erstwhile TNT drama Leverage, coined the term in 2009, when he and his writers realized that viewers were addicted to the show’s pipe-laying, jargon-laden briefing scenes. “Competence porn” is a truly excellent phrase for an old phenomenon; the frisson of watching smart people tackle tasks with freaky aptitude dates as far back as Robinson Crusoe.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Entertainment featuring competent characters carrying out difficult tasks with great aptitude."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Entertainment",
          "entertainment"
        ],
        [
          "competent",
          "competent"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "aptitude",
          "aptitude"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Arthur Conan Doyle",
        "Sherlock Holmes",
        "The Strand Magazine",
        "The Valley of Fear"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-competence porn.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/46/En-au-competence_porn.ogg/En-au-competence_porn.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/En-au-competence_porn.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "competence porn"
}

Download raw JSONL data for competence porn meaning in All languages combined (3.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.