Verismo

/vɛɹˈɪsmə‌ʊ/

/vɛɹˈɪsmoʊ/

[noun]

Verismo

[NOUN]

a style of opera or literature portraying realistic and gritty depictions of everyday life

Examples

1. And the movement was called the verismo movement, the truth movement.

2. And this-- When the neorealists began to articulate their own manifestos and to explain theoretically what they were up to, they sometimes reached back to the verismo movement, as a way of saying we're actually traditional as well as new.