truculencia

From Latin truculentia.

• IPA^(key): /tɾukuˈlenθja/ [t̪ɾu.kuˈlẽn̟.θja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /tɾukuˈlensja/ [t̪ɾu.kuˈlẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθja (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: tru‧cu‧len‧cia

truculencia f (plural truculencias)

1. savagery, brutality
   • 2022 April 23, Carlos Boyero, “Ultracuerpos”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pagas por ver series clónicas, producto de fórmulas despreciables, temáticas repetitivas, vacío y truculencia.

     You pay to watch cloned series, a product of despicable formulas, repetitive themes, emptiness and truculence.

• “truculencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024