Definitions for verismo

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verismo ve·ris·mo

Spelling: [vuh-riz-moh; Italian ve-re

IPA: /vəˈrɪz moʊ; Italian vɛˈriz mɔ/

Verismo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in verismo (eimorsv).

Definitions for verismo

noun

1. the use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful.

Origin of verismo

1905-10; Italian: realism, equivalent to ver(o) true (Latin vērus) + -ismo -ism