grotesquerie

English

Alternative forms

• grotesquery

Etymology

From the French

Noun

grotesquerie (countable and uncountable, plural grotesqueries)

1. The quality of being grotesque or macabre.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.

   • 2009, January 12, “Steve Smith”, in Worlds Apart: Harmonies Earthbound and Lunar‎^[1]:

     The tone is brittle and morbid, emphasizing the eerie grotesquerie of Albert Giraud's poems.

2. (literature) A genre of literature that was popular in the early 20th century, and practiced by writers such as Ambrose Bierce and Fritz Leiber.

Translations

quality of being grotesque

• French: grotesquerie (fr) f
• Spanish: grotesquería f

• Swedish: groteskeri f

See also

• grotesquerie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia