culteranismo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.
Noun
[edit]culteranismo (uncountable)
- (literature) A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a sea of metaphors and complex syntactical order.
- Synonym: cultism
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
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Noun
[edit]culteranismo m (plural culteranismos)
- culteranismo
Further reading
[edit]- “culteranismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014