'Romanticism' definitions:
Definition of 'romanticism'
(from WordNet)
noun
Impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
noun
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" [syn: Romanticism, Romantic Movement] [ant: classicalism, classicism]
noun
An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) [syn: romanticism, romance]
Definition of 'Romanticism'
From: GCIDE
- Romanticism \Ro*man"ti*cism\, n. [CF. It. romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.] A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi?val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style. [1913 Webster]
- He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of romanticism. --Lowell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'romanticism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affection,
- affectionateness,
- amativeness,
- amorousness,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- bathos,
- bleeding heart,
- cloyingness,
- demonstrativeness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dreamery,
- ecstasy,
- enchantment,
- flight of fancy,
- goatishness,
- goo,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- horniness,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- lovelornness,
- lovesickness,
- maudlinness,
- mawkishness,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- namby-pamby,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nostalgia,
- nostomania,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- play of fancy,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rapture,
- romance,
- sentiment,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- sexiness,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- slush,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- susceptibility,
- sweetness and light,
- tearjerker,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking