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culteranismo

culteranismo noun: 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.

Noun

culteranismo (uncountable)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    cultism

Synonyms of culteranismo

Origin of culteranismo

Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.

Questions about culteranismo

What does culteranismo mean?
Culteranismo means 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.
What part of speech is culteranismo?
Culteranismo is a noun.

Words near culteranismo in the dictionary

  1. cultch
  2. cultches
  3. cultdom
  4. culte du moi
  5. culter
  6. culteranismo
  7. culters
  8. culthead
  9. cultheads
  10. cultic
  11. cultically

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