culteranismo

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.

Noun[edit]

culteranismo (uncountable)

  1. (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

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Spanish[edit]

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Noun[edit]

culteranismo m (plural culteranismos)

  1. culteranismo

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