culteranismo

Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.

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

• cultorist

culteranismo m (plural culteranismos)

1. culteranismo

• “culteranismo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28