What is the meaning of "gothic"?

Question

What is its concept, and why do some people want to look gothic?

Answer 1

Being goth has nothing to do with what clothes you wear or music you listen to, it is a way of thinking and seeing the world. The clothes that goths wear and the music that goths listen to is just a reflection of that mindset. Goths see that there is extreme pain and evil in the world, along with the good. Instead of condemning it or ignoring it, goths accept these things as a part of life and try and enjoy the good along with the bad, since they can't stop the bad from happening. They are not obsessed with death, they just accept it as an inevitability. They do not try and cause more pain in their (or anybody else's) lives, since there is plenty to start with. Goths tend to be kind, intelligent, non-violent, emotional, and artistic.

Answer 2

Gothic may mean:

As it relates to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe:
Gothic language
Gothic alphabet

From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:
High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture:
Gothic art
Gothic architecture
International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century
Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages

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

Answer 3

gothic means being/looking scary or ghastly... has smthing to do with the reverence or sacred (Godly) world... pple wan to look gothic bcos they think its cool...? but i think its rude to pple who blief in Gods so on

Answer 4

they are dark, lonely and sad. not happy with themselves. afraid of death, so that is why they look like death themselves.