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Spanish
Etymology
From altisonante + -ia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /altisoˈnanθja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /altisoˈnansja/
- Rhymes: -anθja
- Rhymes: -ansja
- Syllabification: al‧ti‧so‧nan‧cia
Noun
altisonancia f (plural altisonancias)
- pompousness, grandiloquence
2015 September 30, “El Woody Allen que vigila a Amenábar”, in El País:Es su vuelta al thriller tras el lirismo existencialista de Mar adentro y la altisonancia histórica de Ágora.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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