culteranismo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.

Noun

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

Related terms

• cultorist

Spanish

Noun

culteranismo m (plural culteranismos)

1. culteranismo

Further reading

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