romanticism Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
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noun a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
Romantic Movement.
- Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality
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noun an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
romance.
WordNet
Ro*man"ti*cism noun
Etymology
CF. It.Definitions
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 medival forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style. 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.
