Stereotype vs Caricature - What's the difference?
stereotype | caricature |
As verbs the difference between stereotype and caricature is that stereotype is while caricature is .
stereotype Noun
( en noun)
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language
Verb
( stereotyp)
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
- to stereotype the Bible
To print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
See also
* stereotypic
* stereotypical
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caricature Noun
( en noun)
A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
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A grotesque misrepresentation.
* Macaulay
- A grotesque caricature of virtue.
Descendants
* Tagalog: (l)
Verb
To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.
Derived terms
* caricaturist
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