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Campness vs Campiness - What's the difference?

campness | campiness | Synonyms |

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

English

Noun

(-)
  • (arts) The quality of being camp
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 23, Dwight Garner, The Mahvelous and the Damned, New York Times citation
    • , passage=From its beginning, the group had an “irretrievable air of campness .” }}

    campiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (arts) The quality of being campy
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, January 8, Lawrence Bommer, Live Dancers Tonite, Chicago Reader citation
    • , 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:
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * campness