An adjectival cascade is a poetic technique involving a rapid, successive deployment of multiple adjectives—often without intervening nouns or with a single noun modified by a string of descriptors—that creates a lush, overwhelming, or hyper-sensory effect; this stylistic flourish can evoke opulence, confusion, emotional intensity, or perceptual overload, as seen in the decadent verse of Oscar Wilde or the imagistic density of Hart Crane, where the accumulation of modifiers generates a textured, almost synesthetic experience that foregrounds mood and atmosphere over syntactic clarity.

Series of adjectives without conjunctions. Creates accumulative, intensifying effect. Type of asyndeton. Example: "dark, cold, bitter wind." Common in descriptive passages.