Camp vs. Kitsch

Campnoun

An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.

Campnoun

An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.

Campnoun

A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.

Campnoun

A single hut or shelter.

Campnoun

The company or body of persons encamped.

Campnoun

A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.

Campnoun

(uncommon) Campus

Campnoun

(informal) A summer camp.

Campnoun

(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; called also burrow and pie.

Campnoun

(obsolete) Conflict; battle.

Campnoun

An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

Campnoun

An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.

Campverb

To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.

Campverb

To set up a camp.

Campverb

(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.

Campverb

(video games) To stay in an advantageous location in a video game, such as next to a power-up's spawning point or in order to guard an area.

Campverb

To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.

Campverb

To wrangle; argue.

Campadjective

Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.

Campadjective

Ostentatiously effeminate.

Campadjective

Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.

Campnoun

The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.

Campnoun

A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.

Campnoun

A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

Campnoun

The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.

Campnoun

A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; - called also burrow and pie.

Campnoun

An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.

Campverb

To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.

Campverb

To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; - often with out.

Campverb

To play the game called camp.

Campnoun

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;

Campnoun

a group of people living together in a camp;

Campnoun

temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers;

Campnoun

an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

Campnoun

a prison for forced laborers;

Campnoun

something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality;

Campnoun

shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs

Campnoun

a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months;

Campverb

live in or as if in a tent;

Campverb

establish or set up a camp

Campverb

give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

Campadjective

providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities;

Kitschnoun

Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.

Kitschadjective

Of art and decor: of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.

Kitschnoun

art in pretentious bad taste

Kitschadjective

of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

Kitsch

Kitsch ( KITCH; loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, gratuitous, or of banal taste.According to early critical theory, kitsch provides immediate gratification based on contrived sentiment. Behind a culture industry, kitsch works to pacify difference, or social complexity, and engender a psychological interdependence with homogenous consumerism.The avant-garde opposed kitsch as melodramatic and superficial affiliation with the human condition and its natural standards of beauty.