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)

1. (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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28