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