satire
NOUN:
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
4. a novel, play, entertainment, etc, in which topical issues, folly, or evil are held up to scorn by means of ridicule and irony.
5. the genre constituted by such works.
6. the use of ridicule, irony, etc, to create such an effect.
7. a work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous.
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is a satire of eighteenth-century British society. —Dictionary.com.
8. a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
9. trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly.
Origin:
First recorded in 1500–10; from Latin satira, variant of satura “medley,” perhaps feminine derivative of satur “sated” (see saturate). Dictionary 2: C16: from Latin satira a mixture, from satur sated, from satis enough. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of satire: 1501. History and Etymology for satire: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
4. a novel, play, entertainment, etc, in which topical issues, folly, or evil are held up to scorn by means of ridicule and irony.
5. the genre constituted by such works.
6. the use of ridicule, irony, etc, to create such an effect.
7. a work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous.
Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is a satire of eighteenth-century British society. —Dictionary.com.
8. a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
9. trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly.
Origin:
First recorded in 1500–10; from Latin satira, variant of satura “medley,” perhaps feminine derivative of satur “sated” (see saturate). Dictionary 2: C16: from Latin satira a mixture, from satur sated, from satis enough. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of satire: 1501. History and Etymology for satire: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.