Satire vs. Caricature — What's the Difference?

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or through other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose or be drawn solely for entertainment.

A literary work in which human foolishness or vice is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.

The branch of literature constituting such works.

The art of creating such representations.

Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose human foolishness or vice.

A grotesque imitation or misrepresentation:The trial was a caricature of justice.

(uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change or highlighting a shortcoming in the work of another. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this.

To represent or imitate in an exaggerated, distorted manner.

(countable) A satirical work.

A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.

Severity of remark.

A grotesque misrepresentation.

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.

(computing) In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.

Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

Having the characteristics of a caricature, grotesque.

Witty language used to convey insults or scorn;

To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody.

To make or draw a caricature of; to represent with ridiculous exaggeration; to burlesque.

A representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect

Represent in or produce a caricature of;