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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   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. uncountable
2. 2
   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. wordnet

Synonyms

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cultismgongorismo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish culteranismo.

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