exaggeration of personal features or characteristics, often to a ludicrous or grotesque degree
a representation, esp in literature or art, that makes use of such exaggeration for comic or satirical effect
an imitation or distortion so gross or inferior as to seem like a caricature
I've got to take under my wing, tra-la, a most unattractive old thing, tra-la, with a caricature of a face — W S Gilbert
caricatural adj
caricaturist noun
[Italian caricatura from caricare to load, exaggerate, from late Latin carricare: see charge1]