Grotesque vs Grotesquerie - What's the difference?
grotesque | grotesquerie |
distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
disgusting or otherwise viscerally reviling.
(typography) sans serif.
A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.
Anything grotesque.
(typography) A sans serif typeface.
The quality of being grotesque or macabre.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 12, Steve Smith, Worlds Apart: Harmonies Earthbound and Lunar, New York Times
, passage=The tone is brittle and morbid, emphasizing the eerie grotesquerie of Albert Giraud's poems. }}
(lb) A genre of literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as (Ambrose Bierce) and (Fritz Leiber).
As nouns the difference between grotesque and grotesquerie
is that grotesque is a style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms while grotesquerie is the quality of being grotesque or macabre.As an adjective grotesque
is distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous.grotesque
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(wikipedia grotesque)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
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* grotesqueryNoun
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