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Gothic may mean: As it relates to the Goths (''Gothos'', ''Getas''), a Germanic tribe: From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, ''gotico'', with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of ' Classical ' or ' Roman ', hence:
From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic ), with grim overtones (e.g. from the contrast of Germanic Mythology with classical Greek Mythology ):
From its use in Romanticism , the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:
More recent uses:
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