utsuge
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Japanese visual novel genre characterized by tragic plots and pervasively bleak tones.
Example Sentences
- "Utsuge, on the other hand, stands for pretty much the opposite of nakige, aiming to be as depressing an experience as possible."
- "The related genre “utsuge” (“depressing game”), unlike “nakige”, does not typically achieve a happy ending."
- "Nitroplus, the company behind Saya no uta, specializes in utsuge containing body horror, gore, rape, and depression—in short, as scholar Clarisse Thorn puts it, games that are “not ‘fun’ in the way most people think about ‘fun,’ that’s for sure.”"
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 鬱ゲー (utsuge, “depressing game”), a combination of 鬱 (utsu, “melancholy, gloom”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 鬱ゲー
Inflected Forms
utsuges (plural)