Meanings
plural grotesquenesses
- countableuncountableSynonym of grotesquerie, the quality of being grotesque.
She was aware of a perverse flicker of thought in herself: If this idea did, somehow, have legs (which it almost certainly did not – it was crazy, maybe illegal, unsavory to the point of grotesqueness), then she’d want to get a real writer on it.
2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 137Synonyms: grotesquerie
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of grotesquerie, the quality of being grotesque.
More synonyms by meaning
nounludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekκρύπτω (krúptō)
- Ancient Greekκρυπτή (kruptḗ)
- Latincrypta
- Italiangrotta
- Italiangrottesco
- Middle Frenchgrotesque
- Englishgrotesque
- Englishgrotesqueness
Cite this entry
grotesqueness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grotesqueness
“grotesqueness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grotesqueness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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