culteranismo

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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

Spanish

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Noun

culteranismo m (plural culteranismos)

  1. culteranismo

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