culteranismo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.
Noun
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
Spanish
Further reading
- “culteranismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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