altisonancia

Spanish

Etymology

From altisonante +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /altisoˈnanθja/ [al̪.t̪i.soˈnãn̟.θja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /altisoˈnansja/ [al̪.t̪i.soˈnãn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -anθja (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ansja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: al‧ti‧so‧nan‧cia

Noun

altisonancia f (plural altisonancias)

1. pompousness, grandiloquence
   • 2015 September 30, “El Woody Allen que vigila a Amenábar”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Es su vuelta al thriller tras el lirismo existencialista de Mar adentro y la altisonancia histórica de Ágora.

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Further reading

• “altisonancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024