# Actual Freedom – Definitions

# Definitions Bizarrerie; Bizarro; Grotesquerie; Weirdity Bizarrerie: • bizarrerie (n.): strangeness or grotesqueness, especially strange or unconventional behaviour. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary). • bizarrerie (n.; pl. bizarreries): a thing considered extremely strange and unusual, especially in an amusing way; [e.g.]: "the bizarrerie of small talk"; "This episode, we can agree, adds a new chapter to the annals of bizarrerie"; "Her field of deployment was not the courtrooms of Paris but the literary culture of the Valois court, with its love of classical myths and its taste for bizarrerie"; "But where in the Iliad we still encounter bizarrerie, in Troy the visual and sexual could not be more ordinary despite the virtual scenery"; "Sometimes he proceeds with full force, but his own powers trip him up; originality becomes bizarrerie, genius begets monsters"; "The film’s bizarrerie extends to the characters". [origin: mid eighteenth century; from French, from bizarre]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). • bizarrerie (n.): 1. the quality of being bizarre; 2. a bizarre act. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • bizarrerie (n.): 1. a bizarre quality; 2. something bizarre. [first known use: 1747; French]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • bizarrerie (n.): bizarre quality.~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Bizarrerie: • bizarrerie (n.): 1. the quality of being bizarre; 2. a bizarre act. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • bizarrerie (n.): 1. a bizarre quality; 2. something bizarre. [French; first known use: 1747]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). • bizarrerie (n.): bizarre quality. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • bizarrerie (n.): strangeness or grotesqueness, especially strange or unconventional behaviour. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary). • bizarrerie (n.; pl. bizarreries): a thing considered extremely strange and unusual, especially in an amusing way; [e.g.]: “the bizarrerie of small talk”; “This episode, we can agree, adds a new chapter to the annals of bizarrerie everywhere”; “Her field of deployment was not the courtrooms of Paris but the literary culture of the Valois court, with its love of classical myths and its taste for bizarrerie uncut”; “But where in the Iliad we still encounter bizarrerie, in Troy the visual and sexual could not be more ordinary despite the virtual scenery”; “Sometimes he proceeds with full force, but his own powers trip him up; originality becomes bizarrerie, genius begets monsters”; “The film’s bizarrerie extends to the characters”. [origin: mid eighteenth century; from French, from bizarre]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary). Bizarro, history: The history of Bizarro, the defective replica of Superman, is as craggy as the creature’s disfigured face. While the layperson or contemporary fan might regard Bizarro as the doppelgänger of the Man of Steel, this tragic character first appeared in “The Adventures of Superman When He Was a Boy”, DC Comics’ Superboy № 68 (1958), written by Otto Binder and illustrated by George Papp. In that tale, Superboy observes the unsuccessful trial run of Smallville scientist Professor Dalton’s duplicator. Not only is Prof. Dalton a failure as an inventor, he is clumsy, too—he stumbles into his machine, causing it to bathe the Boy of Steel in radiation. And thus is born a (cracked) mirror image of Superboy, a jagged-complexioned, childlike duplicate who dubs himself “Bizarro” after Superboy gasps, “Gosh, that creature is bizarre!” Possessing all of the Boy of Steel’s remarkable abilities—except for his grammar whereby Bizarro substitutes “Me” for “I” (“Me am Bizarro” is one of the most famous catchphrases to spring from comics into the American vernacular)—this super-powered cipher blunders through the streets of Smallville looking for acceptance (“Why no one like Me?”), inadvertently instigating panic. (...). Editor Mort Weisinger quickly realised that Bizarro better served the Superman franchise as a comedic character—and as a Bizarro society. This uncanny race resided on the Bizarro World, a square-shaped planet where its inhabitants followed a peculiar code of conduct: “Us do opposite of all earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!” Beginning with Adventure Comics № 285 (1961), “Tales of the Bizarro World” graduated into its own series, with Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman, taking over as writer from Otto Binder and with John Forte as artist, running monthly in the title through issue № 299 (1962). (...). Bizarro’s widest claim to fame was screenwriter David Mandel’s “The Bizarro Jerry”, an immensely popular episode in Season Eight of the long-running sitcom ‘Seinfeld’ (1990-1998). While comic-book references were common in the series, David Mandel’s teleplay was structured around the “reverse image” Bizarro template: Elaine encountered kind-hearted counterparts to the spiteful Jerry, George, and Kramer. Jerry’s dialogue expounds the writer’s—and actor Jerry Seinfeld’s—love for the super-miscreant: “Up is down. Down is up. He says ‘hello’ when he leaves, ‘goodbye’ when he arrives”.~ (from “The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood”; ©2006 Visible Ink Press®). Grotesquery/Grotesquerie: • grotesquerie or grotesquery (n.; pl. grotesqueries): 1. the state of being grotesque; grotesqueness; [e.g.]: "A jumble of stuffed animals were packed in the bed around her... and their innocent shapes crowded around her head in sweet, shadowed grotesquerie". (Donna Tarrt); 2. something grotesque; [e.g.]: "He put the catfish, the tadpoles, and a few other grotesqueries in his jar filled with swamp water, and then picked up all the other wriggling things and threw them back into the lake". (Rick Bass). ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • grotesquerie or grotesquery (n.; pl. grotesqueries): 1. the state of being grotesque; 2. something that is grotesque, esp. an object such as a sculpture. ~ (Collins English Dictionary). • grotesquerie or grotesquery (n.; pl. grotesqueries): 1. grotesque character; 2. something grotesque. [1555-65; from French]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary). • grotesquerie (n.): ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion; (synonyms): grotesqueness, grotesquery; ugliness (=‘qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses’). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • grotesquerie or grotesquery (n.; pl. grotesqueries): an embodiment or expression of grotesqueness; grotesque conduct or speech; a grotesque action; [e.g.]: "His [Prof. Wilson’s] range of power is extraordinary: from the nicest subtleties of feminine tenderness, he passes at will to the wildest animal riot and the most daring grotesqueries of humour". (Chambers’ Encyclopaedia); "Think of... the grotesqueries of Caliban and Trinculo". (Sidney Lanier, "The English Novel and Essays on Literature", 1883, p. 285). [from grotesque+-ery]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). Grotesquerie: • grotesquerie (n.; pl. grotesqueries): 1. the state of being grotesque; grotesqueness; [e.g.]: “A jumble of stuffed animals were packed in the bed around her... and their innocent shapes crowded around her head in sweet, shadowed grotesquerie”. (Donna Tarrt); 2. something grotesque; [e.g.]: “He put the catfish, the tadpoles, and a few other grotesqueries in his jar filled with swamp water, and then picked up all the other wriggling things and threw them back into the lake”. (Rick Bass). [from French, a fanciful style of decorative art, from Italian grottesca, from feminine of grottesco, ‘of a grotto’, from grotta, ‘grotto’; see grotto; viz.: alteration of Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta, from Latin crypta, ‘vault’; see crypt; viz.: from Greek kruptē, from feminine of kruptos, ‘hidden’, from kruptein, ‘to hide’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary). • grotesquerie (n.): ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion; (synonyms): grotesqueness, grotesquery; ugliness (qualities of appearance which do not give pleasure to the senses). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0). • grotesquerie (n.): a literary form which became a popular genre in the early twentieth century; it can be grouped with science fiction and horror; authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Fritz Leiber, Howard P. Lovecraft, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Margaret St. Clair, Stanton A. Coblentz, Lee Brown Coye and Katherine Anne Porter have written books within this genre; the term has also been used to describe macabre artwork and movies, and it is used in architecture. ~ (2012 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia). • grotesquerie (n.; pl. grotesqueries): an embodiment or expression of grotesqueness; grotesque conduct or speech; a grotesque action; [e.g.]: “His [Prof. Wilson’s] range of power is extraordinary: from the nicest subtleties of feminine tenderness, he passes at will to the wildest animal riot and the most daring grotesqueries of humour”. (Chambers’s Encyclopaedia); “Think of... the grotesqueries of Caliban and Trinculor”. (Sidney Lanier, “The English Novel”, 1897, p. 294). [from grotesque + -erie]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). (left-clicking the yellow rectangle with the capital ‘U’ opens a new web page). Weirdity: • weirdity (n.): 1. a weird quality or characteristic; 2. the condition of being weird. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): 1. a weird or remarkably peculiar person, thing, or event; 2. a weird characteristic or trait; peculiarity; 3. the quality of being weird; weirdness or bizarrerie. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): the state or quality of being weird; the result or product of being weird; (synonyms): abnormality; eeriness; queerness; eccentricity; peculiarity; unearthliness; paranormal. [etymology: from weird +‎ -ity]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): 1. one which is weird; 2. the state or quality of being weird; weirdness. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): 1. bizarre eccentricity which is not easily explained; weirdness; fantastic; bizarre; 2. a weird attitude or habit; weirdness. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): like an oddity, but weird. [weird+-ity]. ~ (Neoteric Online Dictionary). • weirdity (n.): a person, thing, event, or trait which isn’t plain old odd, it is downright weird; [e.g.]: "My cheese sandwich looks just like your mother. What a weirdity!" ~ (Urban Dictionary Online). RETURN TO DEFINITIONS INDEX RICHARD’S HOME PAGE The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. 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