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Trilogy vs Gormenghastian - What's the difference?

trilogy | gormenghastian |

As a noun trilogy

is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works they are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.

As an adjective gormenghastian is

resembling or pertaining to (1911-1968).

trilogy

English

(wikipedia trilogy)

Noun

(trilogies)
  • A set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy ’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.

    Related terms

    * tetralogy (4) * pentalogy (5) * hexalogy (6) * heptalogy (7) * octalogy (8) * ennealogy (9) * decalogy (10) * polylogy (2+)

    gormenghastian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or pertaining to (1911-1968).
  • * 1957 , The National and English Review
    • The setting, a Gormenghastian castle, is rich with expectancy, and so is quite a lot of the language
  • * 2006 , Dana Facaros, Michael Pauls, Sardinia
    • The rules and rites that have come down through time are followed with Gormenghastian rigour, even though the reasons for some bits have long been forgotten
  • * 2006 , Django Wexler, Shinigami
    • She'd been picturing some Gormenghastian monstrosity, a mass of dark stone and hulking, spiked towers.
  • * 2007 , Antonia Quirke, Choking on Marlon Brando
    • Up and down the corridors, the dozen staircases, through the whole Gormenghastian maze.