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Gothic or '''Goth''' may refer to:


GERMANIC TRIBE



RENAISSANCE ART

From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, ''gotico'', with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:


CULTURE



ARCHITECTURE



ROMANTICISM


From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:
  • Gothic Fiction , a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.


From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:



TYPEFACES



NATURE

  • Gothic (moth) , a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture

  • Gothics , one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.



FILM



VIDEO GAME



NOVEL

  • The Japanese novel and manga Goth .



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