altisonancia

Spanish

Etymology

From altisonante +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /altisoˈnanθja/ [al̪.t̪i.soˈnãn̟.θja]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /altisoˈnansja/ [al̪.t̪i.soˈnãn.sja]
(Spain) Rhymes: -anθja
(Latin America) Rhymes: -ansja
Syllabification: al‧ti‧so‧nan‧cia

Noun

altisonancia f (plural altisonancias)

pompousness, grandiloquence
- 2015 September 30, “El Woody Allen que vigila a Amenábar”, in El País‎:
  Es su vuelta al thriller tras el lirismo existencialista de Mar adentro y la altisonancia histórica de Ágora.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“altisonancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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