noun, masculine/tɾemenˈdismo/plural: tremendismos
a technique using extremely crude realism in order to shock the reader, chiefly used in some Spanish novels of the 1940s
Etymology tree Spanish tremendo Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. Spanish -ismo Spanish tremendismo From tremendo (“awful, tremendous”) + -ismo (“-ism”).