Other forms: sarcasms
Sarcasm is saying the opposite of what you mean, sharpened to sting. Heavy sarcasm.
It depends entirely on tone, which is why it fails so badly in writing. Sarcasm is understood by children at about eight and by nobody reading a message at midnight.
1nounsarcasmSaying the opposite of what you mean, sharpened to sting.
“The sarcasm was missed and the remark was taken as praise.”
sarcasm is a manner.
From Greek sarkázō, to strip off the flesh — from sárx, flesh. The Greeks heard a sarcastic remark as something that tears a strip off you.
Proto-Indo-European
*twerḱ-
Latin
sarcasmus
English, today
sarcasm
Built from
From Latin sarcasmus. From Latin sarcasmus, from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (“a sneer”), from σαρκάζω (“to gnash the teeth (in anger)”) literally “to strip off the flesh”, from σάρξ (“flesh”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA