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Romanticism Common

Origin: Greek suffix -ism

Romanticism has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
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"

3

an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

4

A romantic quality, spirit or action.

Proper Noun
1

An artistic and intellectual movement, stressing emotion, freedom and individual imagination, that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.

Related Terms
Antonyms
classicalism
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
idealism humanistic discipline artistic style quality
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
stardust
Rhyming Words
ism oism jism wuism agism meism prism yoism quism reism weism tuism ovism idism grism deism seism icism zoism owlism
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