tremendismo
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom tremendo (“awful, tremendous”) + -ismo (“-ism”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittremendismo m (plural tremendismos)
- (literature) a technique using extremely crude realism in order to shock the reader, chiefly used in some Spanish novels of the 1940s
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “tremendismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014