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Chimera vs Grotesque - What's the difference?

chimera | grotesque |

As nouns the difference between chimera and grotesque

is that chimera is chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals while grotesque is a style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.

As a proper noun Chimera

is one of the many fantastical offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a multi-headed monster represented as vomiting flames. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a dragon for a tail. Killed by the hero Bellerophon in Lycea.

As an adjective grotesque is

distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.

chimera

English

(wikipedia chimera)

Alternative forms

* chimaera *

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mythology) Chimera, or any fantastic creature with parts from different animals
  • A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author
  • (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two zygotes
  • (architecture) A grotesque, like a gargoyle but without a spout for rainwater
  • (usually chimaera ) A cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin

    • Synonyms

    * (fish) ghost shark, ratfish, rabbitfish

    Derived terms

    * chimeral * chimeric * chimerism * tetragametic chimera * Chimera: the name of one of the ships of

    See also

    * Chimaera * ----

    grotesque

    English

    (wikipedia grotesque)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
  • disgusting or otherwise viscerally reviling.
  • (typography) sans serif.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
  • Anything grotesque.
  • (typography) A sans serif typeface.

    • Related terms

    * grotesquely * grotesqueness

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