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romanticism
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A romantic quality, spirit or action
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period ) was an artistic, literary, musical 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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bella's puncturing of William's nostalgic romanticism with her admission that she never really fancied him. ▪ He follows Cohen's bittersweet romanticism with a solid dose of Sonic Youth. ▪ It effectively conjured up the mixture ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, "a romantic idea," from romantic + -ism . In literature, 1823 in reference to a movement toward medieval forms (especially in reaction to classical ones) it has an association now more confined to Romanesque . The movement began in German and spread ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. impractical romantic ideals and attitudes 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 ] ...
Usage examples of romanticism.
His romanticism is very Russian, genuinely akin to the spirit of Russian folk song and folk tales.
Schumann now, but a Chopin berceuse, whose romanticism he found absolutely unbearable.
It too is concerned with the inner state, and with an attempt to resolve the modern incoherence, to marry romanticism with naturalism, to order science, rationalism and democracy while at the same time highlighting their shortcomings and deficiencies.
This theme attracted the sympathy of liberals everywhere, especially in the political context of a powerful conservative ascendancy in Western Europe and in the cultural context of philhellenic ideologies that had entered widely into European classicism and Romanticism.
There is a looseness and lushness, a romanticism and balladry, in the work, that is not quite characteristic.
The transposing of Leone Leoni is just this, and the romanticism of it delighted Liszt.
They were in the centre, and surrounding them were Clark Bennington with a pipe and stick and a look of faded romanticism in his eyes, J.
Hortense, Pauline, have all the grace and fascination of the earlier age, merge with it the abandon of the Directoire period, and touch the whole with the romanticism and individualism of the coming century.
The intensity, the lyricism, the romanticism of love in these last two cases has struck some readers as impermissibly old-fashioned.
The romanticism of a Ruritanian shooting-lodge might easily become a thin cardboard affair, concluded Van der Valk.
We hear a great deal about romanticism as contradistinguished from classicism, but it is seldom that we have the line of demarcation between the two tendencies or schools drawn for us.
In the larger study of the opera made in another place, I have attempted to show that the contest is in reality the one which is always waging between the principles of romanticism and classicism, a contest which is essentially friendly and necessary to progress.
In him, Spade's hard-edged, cryptic cynicism and Marlowe's moral romanticism are replaced with a sort of sympathetic applied psychology.
A streak of romanticism, which had survived all their defeats and humblings, welled up in them.
There was a strong streak of romanticism in her complex personality, and there was that old Prussian rectitude that made her record every broken teacup in a notebook.