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romanticism

ro·man·ti·cism

UK/ɹəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/ US/roʊˈmæntʌˌsɪzʌm/ rare

noun

1.

impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

2.

a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

  • “romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality”
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3.

an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

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Origin

From romantic + -ism.

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