Definitions for Romanticism
roʊˈmæn təˌsɪz əmro·man·ti·cism

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. romanticismnoun

   impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

2. Romanticism, Romantic Movementnoun

   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. romanticism, romancenoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. romanticismnoun

   A romantic quality, spirit or action

2. Romanticismnoun

   18th Century artistic and intellectual movement which stressed emotion, freedom and individual imagination.

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1. Romanticism

   Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century; in most areas it was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism, clandestine literature, paganism, idealization of nature, suspicion of science and industrialization, as well as glorification of the past with a strong preference for the medieval rather than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, but also the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music and literature; it had a major impact on historiography, education, chess, social sciences and the natural sciences. It had a significant and complex effect on politics, with romantic thinkers influencing conservatism, liberalism, radicalism and nationalism.The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as fear, horror, terror and awe — especially that experienced in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublime and beauty of nature. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, but also spontaneity as a desirable characteristic (as in the musical impromptu). In contrast to the rationalism and classicism of the Enlightenment, Romanticism revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived as authentically medieval in an attempt to escape population growth, early urban sprawl, and industrialism. Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events and ideologies of the French Revolution were also proximate factors since many of the early Romantics were cultural revolutionaries and sympathetic to the revolution. Romanticism assigned a high value to the achievements of "heroic" individualists and artists, whose examples, it maintained, would raise the quality of society. It also promoted the individual imagination as a critical authority allowed of freedom from classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a Zeitgeist, in the representation of its ideas. In the second half of the 19th century, Realism was offered as a polar opposite to Romanticism. The decline of Romanticism during this time was associated with multiple processes, including social and political changes.

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1. romanticism

   Romanticism is a movement in art, literature, and music during the 18th and 19th centuries that emphasized individualism, emotion, imagination, and the beauty and power of nature. It is characterized by the rejection of established norms and conventions, and a focus on aesthetic experience, personal feeling, and the exploration of inner and subjective experiences. It rose as a counter-movement to the Enlightenment's focus on reason and rationality.

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1. Romanticismnoun

   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

2. Etymology: [CF. It. romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.]

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1. Romanticism

   Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, it was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education and the natural sciences. Its effect on politics was considerable and complex; while for much of the peak Romantic period it was associated with liberalism and radicalism, in the long term its effect on the growth of nationalism was probably more significant. The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble, made spontaneity a desirable characteristic, and argued for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language and customary usage. Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be authentically medieval in an attempt to escape the confines of population growth, urban sprawl, and industrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic than Rococo chinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape.

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:4.0 / 5 votes

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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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Romanticism in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Romanticism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Romanticism in a Sentence

1. Charles Bukowski:

   You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

2. Charles Bukowski:

   You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

3. Charles Baudelaire:

   To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

4. Clement Alexander Price:

   “We are drawn to the Harlem Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial interaction and empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era’s creativity, its seemingly larger-than-life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA.”

5. Virginie Viard:

   Romanticism but without any flourishes. Emotions but without any frills.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Romanticism
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Romanticism
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Romanticism
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Romanticism
7. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Romanticism