A Spanish literary and artistic movement emphasizing refined, ornate, and complex language and style; similar to culteranismo.
Spanish form of the general term for cultism, closely related to 'culteranismo.' Developed from 'culto' (cultured) plus '-ismo.' Both describe the same baroque Spanish literary excess.
Spanish had TWO words for the same ornate literary excess—'culteranismo' and 'cultismo'—showing how this movement was so important and debated that different regions named it differently!
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