tremendismo
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From tremendo (“awful, tremendous”) + -ismo (“-ism”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tremendismo m (plural tremendismos)
- (literature) a technique using extremely crude realism in order to shock the reader, chiefly used in some Spanish novels of the 1940s
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Further reading[edit]
- “tremendismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014