different between irony vs pasquinade

English

Etymology 1

First attested in 1502. From Middle French ironie, from Old French, from Latin ?r?n?a, from Ancient Greek ???????? (eir?neía, “irony, pretext”), from ????? (eír?n, “one who feigns ignorance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a??.??n.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?a?.??.ni/, /?a?.?.ni/

Noun

irony (countable and uncountable, plural ironies)

2. (rhetoric) A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
3. Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
4. Ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist; Socratic irony.
5. The state of two usually unrelated entities, parties, actions, etc. being related through a common connection in an uncommon way.
6. (informal) Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. [from the 1640s]

Usage notes

• Some authorities omit the last sense, "contradiction of circumstances and expectations, condition contrary to what might be expected"; however, it has been in common use since the 1600s.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ironically

Translations

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Etymology 2

iron +? -y

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?a??.ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?a?.?.ni/

Adjective

irony (comparative more irony, superlative most irony)

1. Of or pertaining to the metal iron.

   The food had an irony taste to it.

Synonyms

• ferric
• ferrous

Translations

English

Etymology

From French pasquinade, from Pasquin + -ade, modelled on Italian pasquinata, from Latin pascha, from Hebrew ????

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /paskw??ne?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

pasquinade (countable and uncountable, plural pasquinades)

1. A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone.
   • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 155:

     I thought the whole tale would shortly be served up in racy pasquinade – but Catherine, who might have said anything, didn't say a word.

Verb

pasquinade (third-person singular simple present pasquinades, present participle pasquinading, simple past and past participle pasquinaded)

1. (transitive) To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade.
   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue":

     Chantilly was a quondam cobbler of the Rue St. Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the rôle of Xerxes, in Crébillon's tragedy so called, and been notoriously Pasquinaded for his pains.