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1. (n.) romanticism
romantic spirit or tendency.
2. romanticism
(often cap.) the Romantic style or movement in literature and art, or adherence to its principles.
Etymology: (1795–1805)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) romanticism
impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
2. (noun) Romanticism, Romantic Movement
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"
3. (noun) romanticism, romance
an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Romanticism
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
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Romanticism
the name of the reactionary movement in literature and art at the close of last century and at the beginning of this against the cold and spiritless formalism and pseudo-classicism that then prevailed, and was more regardful of correctness of expression than truth of feeling and the claims of the emotional nature; has been defined as the "reproduction in modern art and literature of the life and thought of the Middle Ages."
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