tremendismo
Spanish
Etymology
From tremendo (“awful, tremendous”) + -ismo (“-ism”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾemenˈdismo/ [t̪ɾe.mẽn̪ˈd̪iz.mo]
- Rhymes: -ismo
- Syllabification: tre‧men‧dis‧mo
Noun
tremendismo 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
- tremendista
Further reading
- “tremendismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014