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verismo

verismo noun: an artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner.

Noun

verismo (uncountable)

  1. An artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner

Origin of verismo

Italian

Questions about verismo

What does verismo mean?
Verismo means an artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner.
What part of speech is verismo?
Verismo is a noun.

Words near verismo in the dictionary

  1. verisimilitudes
  2. verisimilitudinous
  3. verisimility
  4. verisimilous
  5. verism
  6. verismo
  7. verisms
  8. verist
  9. veristic
  10. veristically
  11. verists

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