Campness vs Campiness - What's the difference?
campness | campiness | Synonyms |
(arts) The quality of being camp
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 23, Dwight Garner, The Mahvelous and the Damned, New York Times
, passage=From its beginning, the group had an “irretrievable air of campness .” }}
(arts) The quality of being campy
* {{quote-news, 1988, January 8, Lawrence Bommer, Live Dancers Tonite, Chicago Reader
, passage=Still, here, as in the calculated Gong Show campiness of El Grande de Coca-Cola
* 2010 September, Lou Bird, quoted in "What It's Like to be a Costume Designer", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 32:
Campiness is a synonym of campness.
In lang=en terms the difference between campness and campiness
is that campness is the quality of being camp while campiness is the quality of being campy.campness
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campiness
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- Sometimes you embrace the danger of unintentional campiness . I'm not afraid to make State Fair as bright and colorful as possible and put bunch of prints and plaids on actors, and make it all saccharine-sweet.