Macabre vs Horror - What's the difference?
macabre | horror |
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
An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
* {{quote-news
, year = 1898
, date = July 3
, newspaper = Philadelphia Inquirer
, page = 22
, passage = The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
}}
* {{quote-news
, year = 1917
, date = February 11
, newspaper = New York Times
, section = Book reviews
, page = 52
, passage = Those who enjoy horror , stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
}}
* 1947 , re-release poster, tagline:
(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .
As an adjective macabre
is representing or personifying death.As a noun horror is
an intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.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 ----horror
English
Alternative forms
* horrourNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}
- A Nightmare of Horror !