culteranismo

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noun

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.

Similar
cultismGongorismo
OriginSpanish culteranismo →
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Meanings

nounculteranismo (uncountable)
  1. uncountableliteratureA 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.

    Synonyms: cultism

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA 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.

Similar
cultism

More synonyms by meaning

nounan esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order.

Similar
Gongorismo
Broader
literary movement
Also see
cultism

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Spanishculteranismo
  2. Englishculteranismo

Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.

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APA

culteranismo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culteranismo

MLA

“culteranismo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culteranismo. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “culteranismo,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/culteranismo.

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