concettismn.
/kənˈtʃɛtɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /kənˈtʃɛdɪz(ə)m/ Literary Criticism.
The employment of conceits in literary composition. Cf. concetto n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > use of conceits
conceit1589
concettism1854
conceptism1886
1854 Fraser's Mag. 49 140 Some artificial and Byzantine despotism, in which thought becomes pedantry, and poetry stereotyped concettism.
1918 R. N. Whiteford Motives in Eng. Fiction i. 36 It is not as some suppose ‘poetry gone mad’ but poetic prose sublimed by a simplicity that has shorn it of all concettism.
2012 F. Barbierato Inquisitor in Hat Shop iii. 168 Shallow literary ostentation, pompous concettism and endless discussions about futile affected topics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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