What does «altilocuencia» mean in Spanish?
- Grandiloquence; very abundant and elevated eloquence, sometimes to refer to that which is exaggerated and pompous. Great ability to express oneself with fluency and large vocabulary, thus managing to convince or produce some emotional response in the recipients; exaggeration can produce the opposite effect.
Examples of use in Spanish: "la altilocuencia de su discurso sorprendió".
"la altilocuencia de Cicerón será siempre admirable".
"Jesús hablaba con naturalidad, sin la proverbial altilocuencia que poseían los evangelistas", El Sublime Peregrino, Ramatís - 2003.
"Asombrados por los elevados conceptos de vuestra altilocuencia".
"Su exaltación devino a veces altilocuencia innecesaria".
- Style of an artistic work that is elevated and sublime.