Romanticism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "romanticism":
     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