macondiano

Spanish

Etymology

From Macondo +‎ -iano. Macondo is a fictional town that serves as the setting of Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Adjective

macondiano (feminine mancondiana, masculine plural macondianos, feminine plural mancondianas)

1. (Latin America) surreal; bizarre
   • 2017 March 31, “Dulce bellum inexpertis”, in El Nacional‎^[1]:

     Durante aquella brevísima tregua, una intolerable tristeza, una macondiana melancolía hizo presa a los compañeros de Cuervo: hacer la paz les resultaba ignominioso.

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2. (Latin America) fictional

Further reading

• “macondiano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014