romanticism
IPA: roʊmˈæntʌsɪzʌm
Root Word: Romanticism
noun
- (art, music) An artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, peaking from 1800 to 1850, characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.
- A romantic quality, spirit or action.
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Examples of "romanticism" in Sentences
- Romanticism in national context.
- It's pseudo historical romanticism.
- Romanticism was not a movement either.
- He clung to the paraphernalia of romanticism.
- He scorned the past as well as the naive romanticism of his colleagues.
- Some works of the Salmantine school augur the beginning of the Romanticism.
- He mandated that the New Man be brutal, barbarous, and abandon his romanticism.