culteranismo
A literary style during the Baroque period of Spain, characterized by a very…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.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)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.
More definitions
- an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order.
Origin
Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.
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Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order.:Gongorismo
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedcultorist
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable