prosaísmo
Spanish, noun/pɾosaˈismo/
prosaísmo is spelled P-R-O-S-A-Í-S-M-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written Spanish, the 257,601st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prosaísmo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “prosaicness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Defecto de la obra en verso, que consiste en la falta de entonación poética, o en la demasiada llaneza de la…”.
What does prosaísmo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineprosaicness
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Defecto de la obra en verso, que consiste en la falta de entonación poética, o en la demasiada llaneza de la expresión, o en la insulsez del concepto. 2. Cualidad de prosaico.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of prosaísmo
- prosaísmos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce prosaísmo?
- /pɾosaˈismo/
- [pɾo.saˈiz.mo]
- [pɾosaˈismo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is prosaísmo in Spanish?
prosaísmo appears about once in every 54 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).