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Graphic vs Graphicness - What's the difference?

graphic | graphicness |

Graphicness is a related term of graphic.



As nouns the difference between graphic and graphicness

is that graphic is a drawing or picture while graphicness is the quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness.

As an adjective graphic

is drawn, pictorial.

graphic

English

Alternative forms

* graphick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • drawn, pictorial
  • vivid, descriptive, often in relation to depictions of sex or violence
  • Derived terms

    * graphics card

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drawing or picture.
  • (mostly in plural) A computer-generated image as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
  • I've just played this new computer game: the graphics are amazing.

    graphicness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being graphic: grotesqueness or vividness
  • The sheer graphicness of the violence is shocking.