tremendismo
Spanish, noun/tɾemenˈdismo/
tremendismo is spelled T-R-E-M-E-N-D-I-S-M-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 158,678th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tremendismo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “a technique using extremely crude realism in order to shock the reader, chiefly used in some Spanish novels of the 1940s” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Doctrina que recomienda decantarse siempre por el peor escenario posible cuando se desee predecir el futuro”.
What does tremendismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea technique using extremely crude realism in order to shock the reader, chiefly used in some Spanish novels of the 1940s
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Doctrina que recomienda decantarse siempre por el peor escenario posible cuando se desee predecir el futuro. 2. Movimiento artístico cuyas obras representativas tienen por objetivo destacar los aspectos más sombríos de la vida. 3. Forma de torear que persigue la espectacularidad y deja de lado el atenimiento a las reglas clásicas.
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 tremendismo
- tremendismos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tremendismo?
- /tɾemenˈdismo/
- [t̪ɾe.mẽn̪ˈd̪iz.mo]
- [t̪ɾemẽn̪ˈd̪ismo]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tremendismo in Spanish?
tremendismo appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).