Cartoonishness

Quick meaning: Cartoonishness is a noun meaning The state or condition of being cartoonish.

Meaning

The state or condition of being cartoonish.

Example Sentences

Peggy Cosgrave, under the direction of Penguin’s artistic director, Joe Brancato, gives Clara a genial, down-to-earth kindness that keeps her simplicity from crossing over into cartoonishness — a real risk given the jokey facility of Mr. Dudzick’s writing.

But while Katy Perry similarly threw herself into the spirit of the event – crowdsurfing, dancing with a security guard, charming the audience – her peculiar combination of newfound political conscience and longstanding predisposition to DayGlo cartoonishness was simultaneously intriguing and baffling, as a woman delivering between-song speeches about the necessity of taking back power surrounded by dancers dressed as flowers and giant pom-poms covered in fluorescent fur was perhaps wont to be.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cartooniness, clownishness, comicality, comicalness, comicness, toyishness.

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