grotesqueness
1
8.1
- noun
- /ɡroʊˈtɛsknəs/
:
grotesquedad
- The movie's grotesqueness was evident in its portrayal of terrifying creatures and distorted figures.
Examples
-
In his case, the grotesqueness emerges from his propensity to discipline the body in excess.
Academic text (2013) -
Well, you see, my transplanted grotesqueness stayed, and so did I.
-
And the grotesqueness comes not so much from the landscape itself.
-
Much as there is a comic grotesqueness in the bizarre metamorphoses.
Academic text (2016) -
It is an act of total, unrelieved grotesqueness.
Fiction book (1990) -
Your antics, great jackanapes-like, enormously increase your general grotesqueness.
Fiction book (2001) -
The Irish Sheelas show features such as lean ribs, tattooing, a certain grotesqueness, agonized looks, and headgear.
Academic text (2000) -
The contrasting images of youth and age, elegance and grotesqueness are also established, for the old musician himself was all bone, with knees that bent forward and a long shiny head, tier upon tier of wrinkles.
Academic text (1997) -
Here and there lie little snow-white towns along its shores, and between are the gray olive orchards that have something strangely human in their gnarled grotesqueness.
Blog text (22) -
The grotesqueness of the statue made many visitors uncomfortable during the exhibition.
Synonyms
23
8.2
A very ugly thing that looks frightening, often a building
16
1.4
A quality of being unpleasant to look at
2
9.9
A strange, often ugly scene that looks distorted
2
6.3
Extreme ugliness that makes people feel shocked or disgusted
1
9.9
A strange and ugly quality in people and things that shocks and interests
1
6.5
How gross or unpleasant something is
1
6.7
Being unpleasant to look at
1
4.7
The way something looks when people do not find it pleasing
The quality of being very ugly or cruel in a way that shocks people
Antonyms
How Distorted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grotesqueness comes from the Italian word grottesca, which comes from grotta meaning 'cave' and is the same root as English grotto. Artists found strange, twisted pictures in old caves and called them 'grotesque', so grotesqueness means the quality of being strangely ugly or distorted.