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Violence vs Carnography - What's the difference?

violence | carnography |

As nouns the difference between violence and carnography

is that violence is extreme force while carnography is any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.

violence

English

Noun

  • Extreme force.
  • Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • Widespread fighting.
  • (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
  • (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation

    • Related terms

    * violent * violate * violation

    Hypernyms

    * (extreme force) force

    Antonyms

    * peace, nonviolence

    See also

    * domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----

    carnography

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.
  • * 1995 , Linda Badley, Film, horror, and the body fantastic (page 6)
    • In 1986, Philip Brophy noted in Screen magazine that the horror film defied critics' attempts to deal with it as other than plotless carnography , gore, and effects for an increasingly brutalized mass audience.

    Synonyms

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    References

    * "Carnography"] 1972 review of [[Wikipedia:First Blood (novel), First Blood]'' by ''Time' s John Skow which describes the book as "carnography" ie. "meat writing". * A linguist traces "carnography" as far back as 1984 * Eric Raymond defining "carnography" in a book review * from Wordspy