Romanticism is attitudes, ideals and feelings which are romantic rather than realistic.
Her determined romanticism was worrying me.
His poetry tended towards a dreamy romanticism.
2. uncountable noun
Romanticism is the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual's feelings and emotions.
romanticism in British English
(rəʊˈmæntɪˌsɪzəm)
noun
1. (often capital)
the theory, practice, and style of the romantic art, music, and literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, usually opposed to classicism
2.
romantic attitudes, ideals, or qualities
Derived forms
romanticist (roˈmanticist)
noun
romanticism in American English
(roʊˈmæntəˌsɪzəm)
noun
1.
romantic spirit, outlook, tendency, etc.
2. [usuallyR-]
UNRESOLVED CROSS REF
3.
the spirit, attitudes, style, etc. of, or adherence to, the Romantic Movement ora similar movement
see also classicism, realism
Examples of 'romanticism' in a sentence
romanticism
It became one of the standard works on German romanticism.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
With the exception of one scene involving a killing, the film offers neither gritty realism nor lush romanticism.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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In other languages
romanticism
British English: romanticism NOUN
attitudeRomanticism is attitudes, ideals and feelings which are romantic rather than realistic.
Her determined romanticism was worrying me.
American English: romanticism
Brazilian Portuguese: romantismo
Chinese: 浪漫主义
European Spanish: romanticismo
French: romantisme
German: Romantik
Italian: romanticismo
Japanese: 理想主義
Korean: 로맨틱한
European Portuguese: romantismo
Latin American Spanish: romanticismo
British English: romanticism NOUN
artistic movementRomanticism is the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual's feelings and emotions.