Campiness vs Vampiness - What's the difference?
campiness | vampiness |
(arts) The quality of being campy
* {{quote-news, 1988, January 8, Lawrence Bommer, Live Dancers Tonite, Chicago Reader
, passage=Still, here, as in the calculated Gong Show campiness of El Grande de Coca-Cola
* 2010 September, Lou Bird, quoted in "What It's Like to be a Costume Designer", , ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 32:
The quality of being vampy.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 17, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Harking Back to Southern Soul, and Then Reveling in Those Sounds, work=New York Times
, passage=Though they have a belter (Ms. Vitha) and a blues singer (Ms. Wolfe), the vampiness of their delivery suggested more theater than church in their backgrounds. }}
As nouns the difference between campiness and vampiness
is that campiness is (arts) the quality of being campy while vampiness is the quality of being vampy.campiness
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- Sometimes you embrace the danger of unintentional campiness . I'm not afraid to make State Fair as bright and colorful as possible and put bunch of prints and plaids on actors, and make it all saccharine-sweet.
Synonyms
* campnessvampiness
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