Farce vs Irony - What's the difference?
farce | irony |
(lb) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm .
(lb) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
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(lb) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
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, title= (lb) A ridiculous or empty show.
To stuff with forcemeat.
(figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
* Bishop Sanderson
(obsolete) To make fat.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
* Sandys
A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
Ignorance feigned]] for the purpose of confounding or [[provoke, provoking an antagonist; Socratic irony.
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, date=2008-06-30
, title=Isn’t It Ironic? Probably Not
, first=Bob
, last=Harris
, newspaper=The New York Times
As nouns the difference between farce and irony
is that farce is a style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm while irony is a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.As a verb farce
is to stuff with forcemeat.As an adjective irony is
of or pertaining to the metal iron.farce
English
(wikipedia farce)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce , or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, passage=The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him.}}
Derived terms
* farcicalEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(farc)- The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
- if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs
- farcing his letter with fustian
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English
(wikipedia irony)Etymology 1
First attested in 1502. From (etyl) ironie, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
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ironic], [[w:TheFreeDictionary.com, TheFreeDictionary.com], accessed 4 November 2011: The words ironic'', ''irony'', and ''ironically'' are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply "coincidental" or "improbable," in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly. Thus 78 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the use of ironically in the sentence ''In 1969 Susie moved from Ithaca to California where she met her husband-to-be, who, ironically, also came from upstate New York''. Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us. By contrast, 73 percent accepted the sentence ''Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market , where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency. Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
Usage notes
* Some authorities omit the last sense, "contradiction of circumstances and expectations, condition contrary to what might be expected", however it has been in common use since the 1600s.irony, Online Etymology Dictionary