grotesquerie

English

Alternative forms

• grotesquery

Etymology

From the French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡɹəʊˈtɛskəɹi/

Noun

grotesquerie (countable and uncountable, plural grotesqueries)

1. The quality of being grotesque or macabre.
   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

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

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

2. (literature) A genre of horror 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