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