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Definition of Grotesqueness
1. Noun. Ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion.
Generic synonyms: Ugliness
Derivative terms: Grotesque, Grotesque
Definition of Grotesqueness
1. n. Quality of being grotesque.
Definition of Grotesqueness
1. Noun. The characteristic or quality of being grotesque ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grotesqueness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grotesqueness
Literary usage of Grotesqueness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... which led him to surpass that master in the grotesqueness and extravagance of
his designs. He returned to Haarlem considerably improved in health, ..."
2. Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a by James Montgomery Bailey (1873)
"No one, of course, will ever be able to describe -his appearance on that occasion,
but every active mind can conceive the grotesqueness of a figure clothed ..."
3. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans: Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis by Joseph Dillaway Sawyer (1922)
"... detachment we watch the shifting scenes we shall see that the stage of Europe
would find it difficult to duplicate in pathos, humor, or grotesqueness, ..."
4. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1878)
"A senso of this grotesqueness is just what is wanting in Dr. Kalisch ; it would
substitute an air of natural feeling for a kind of solemn artificial ..."
5. What is Meaning?: Studies in the Development of Significance by Victoria Welby (1903)
"For instance, we cannot yet use without grotesqueness or at least a jocular
flavour some of the best of all our metaphors. We have even lost the wisdom of ..."
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