romanticism
pronunciation
How to pronounce romanticism in British English:
UK [rəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm]
How to pronounce romanticism in American English:
US [roʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- 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
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
Word Origin
- romanticism (n.)
- 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 to England and France. Generalized sense of "a tendency toward romantic ideas" is first recorded 1840.
Example
- 1. Romanticism cultivates emotions , the natural , the past , and the ordinary .
- 2. But , she said , " it 's newly arrived at after a period of extreme romanticism . "
- 3. He started as a romantic but then moved beyond romanticism , a movement that emphasized individual creativity and the imagination .
- 4. Connoisseurs say nicaraguan and honduran cigars that emulate cuban hand-rolling techniques can be equally smooth , but lack the romanticism of those from the caribbean island .
- 5. What these arguments all have in common is that they ( and indie ) express the interconnection of two primary western philosophies : puritanism and romanticism .