Camp vs. Kitsch: What's the Difference?

Camp and Kitsch Definitions
Camp
A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
Kitsch
Pieces of art or other objects that appeal to popular or uncultivated taste, as in being garish or overly sentimental.
Camp
A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings
Gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp.
Had a fishing camp in Vermont.
Kitsch
Art, decorative objects, and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.
Camp
The people using such shelters
A howl that awakened the whole camp.
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Kitsch
Of art and decor: of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
Camp
A place, often in the country, that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children
A girls' summer camp.
A tennis camp.
Kitsch
Art in pretentious bad taste
Camp
(Sports) A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.
Kitsch
Of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
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Camp
The people attending the programs at such a place.
Camp
A program offering group instruction or recreation without overnight facilities.
Camp
A prison camp or concentration camp.
Camp
Military service; army life.
Camp
A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side
The council members disagreed, falling into liberal and conservative camps.
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Camp
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect
"Camp is popularity plus vulgarity plus innocence" (Indra Jahalani).
Camp
To make or set up a camp.
Camp
To live in or as if in a camp; settle
We camped in the apartment until the furniture arrived.
Camp
To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp
They camped themselves by a river.
Camp
To act in a histrionic or exaggerated manner.
Camp
To act in an exaggerated, effeminate manner.
Camp
To exaggerate or overdramatize
Camped up the characters in the play.
Camp
Showing or characterized by camp
Played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.
Camp
Given to or characterized by exaggerated, effeminate mannerisms.
Camp
An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other temporary structures.
Camp
An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
Camp
A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
Camp
A single hut or shelter.
A hunter's camp
Camp
The company or body of persons encamped.
Camp
A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
Camp
(obsolete) An army.
Camp
(uncommon) Campus
Camp
(informal) A summer camp.
Camp
(prison slang) A prison.
Camp
(agriculture) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost
Camp
(obsolete) Conflict; battle.
Camp
An affected, exaggerated or intentionally tasteless style.
Camp
The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
Camp
An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that composes of all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
Camp
To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
We're planning to camp in the field until Sunday.
Camp
To set up a camp.
Camp
(transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
Camp
To stay in an advantageous location.
Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.
Camp
To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.
Go and camp the flag for the win.
Camp
To fight; contend in battle or in any kind of contest; to strive with others in doing anything; compete.
Camp
To wrangle; argue.
Camp
Theatrical; making exaggerated gestures.
Camp
Ostentatiously effeminate.
Camp
Intentionally tasteless or vulgar, self-parodying.
Camp
The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
Camp
A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston.
Camp
A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
Camp
The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
Camp
A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; - called also burrow and pie.
Camp
An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
Camp
To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers.
Had our great palace the capacityTo camp this host, we all would sup together.
Camp
To pitch or prepare a camp; to encamp; to lodge in a camp; - often with out.
They camped out at night, under the stars.
Camp
To play the game called camp.
Camp
Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers;
Wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling
Camp
A group of people living together in a camp;
The whole camp laughed at his mistake
Camp
Temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers;
Level ground is best for parking and camp areas
Camp
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Camp
A prison for forced laborers;
China has many work camps for political prisoners
Camp
Something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality;
The livingroom was pure camp
Camp
Shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
Camp
A site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months;
City kids get to see the country at a summer camp
Camp
Live in or as if in a tent;
Can we go camping again this summer?
The circus tented near the town
The houseguests had to camp in the living room
Camp
Establish or set up a camp
Camp
Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
Camp
Providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities;
They played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect
Campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's