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SATIRE
sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark
(noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn; “he used sarcasm to upset his opponent”; “irony is wasted on the stupid”; “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”--Jonathan Swift
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
satire (countable and uncountable, plural satires)
(uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.
(countable) A satirical work.
(uncountable, dated) Severity of remark.
Usage notes
Often confused with parody, which does not necessarily have an element of social change.
Anagrams
• striae, striæ, terais, terasi
Source: Wiktionary
Sat"ire (; in Eng. often , n. Etym: [L. satira, satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and cf. Saturate.]
1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Syn.
– Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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