The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concettism
Concettism \Con*cet"tism\, n.
The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.]
--C. Kingsley.
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concettism
n. The use of concetto, or affected conceits.
Usage examples of "concettism".
So in the seventeenth century the writers, exhausted by the mental effort of the Renaissance and prevented by the tyranny of kings and the domination of the church from occupying themselves with the great issues of life, turned their minds to gongorism, concettism and such-like toys.