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English

Noun

A romantic quality, spirit or action

Translations

Croatian: {{t-|hr|romantičnost|f}}

German: {{t+|de|Romantik|f}}

Category:English nouns ending in "-ism"

ko:romanticism it:romanticism fi:romanticism vi:romanticism zh:romanticism

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

WordNet romanticism
n 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" [ant: classicism]
3: an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or
adventure) [syn: romance]

Moby Dictionary
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