Macabre vs Grotesquerie - What's the difference?
macabre | grotesquerie |
Representing or personifying death.
* 1941 , George C. Booth, Mexico's School-made Society , page 106
Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
* 1993 , Theodore Ziolkowski, "Wagner's Parsifal'' between Mystery and Mummery", ''in'' Werner Sollors (ed.), ''The Return of Thematic Criticism , pages 274-275
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
* 1927 [1938], , Introduction
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 an adjective macabre
is representing or personifying death.As a noun grotesquerie is
the quality of being grotesque or macabre.macabre
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science.
- Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds.
- The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.
Synonyms
* (ghastly) ghastly, horrifying, shocking, terrifyingDerived terms
* danse macabreReferences
Anagrams
* English borrowed terms ----grotesquerie
English
Alternative forms
* grotesqueryNoun
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