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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
gongorism is a noun meaning "an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora". It carries one recorded sense.
an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gongorism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.