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Roleplaying vs Cosplay - What's the difference?

roleplaying | cosplay |

As verbs the difference between roleplaying and cosplay

is that roleplaying is while cosplay is to costume oneself as a character.

As a noun cosplay is

(uncountable) the art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.

roleplaying

English

Alternative forms

* role-playing

Verb

(head)
  • (roleplay)

    • roleplay

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * role-play

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act out a fantasy, especially with a group.
  • To act as (a character) as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
    • He likes to roleplay a vampire.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The practice of roleplaying

    • Synonyms

    * RP

    See also

    * RPG * LARP * roleplayer

    cosplay

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.
  • * 2003 , Cosplay Girls: Japan's Live Animation Heroines :
    • Men, of course, also participate in cosplay and all its attending events, but women make up the greater numbers.
  • * 2006 , Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime And Manga , page 75:
    • The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.
  • * 2010 , Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, Boys' Love Manga , page 5:
    • It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West
  • (countable) A skit or instance of this art or practice.
  • * 2010 , Sarah Lynne Bowman, The Functions of Role-playing Games , page 29:
    • Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.
  • * 2010 , Anne Cooper-Chen, Cartoon Cultures: The Globalization of Japanese Popular Media , page 121:
    • According to a student from France who went to Japan to study Japanese, "Universities in France are like Halloween when otaku students engage in these cosplays . They take Japanese language because of anime, but they see after a few classes that it's hard and not fun. Many drop out" (author interview, 2009).
  • * 2012 , Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Amateur Media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives :
    • Popular cosplays include, for example, characters from the Final Fantasy range of games

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To costume oneself as a character.
    • She cosplayed at the manga convention.
  • To costume oneself as (a character).
    • She cosplayed Sailor Moon at the manga convention.

    Derived terms

    * cosplayer

    Anagrams

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    External links

    * ("cosplay" on Wikipedia) English twice-borrowed terms ----