Definition of "caricature" []

• 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. (noun)
• The art of creating such representations. (noun)
• A grotesque imitation or misrepresentation: The trial was a caricature of justice. (noun)
• To represent or imitate in an exaggerated, distorted manner. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Ah, dualism; that left-brain/right-brain caricature is a pernicious one, isn't it?"
• "Certainly, the caricature is a supression of freedom, in the name of protecting it."
• "The pleasure of the caricature is therefore like that of a voyeur witnessing a sexual aggression against the"