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ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Romantic Movement mean?
• ROMANTIC MOVEMENT (noun)
The noun ROMANTIC MOVEMENT has 1 sense:
1. a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
Familiarity information: ROMANTIC MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
Romantic Movement; Romanticism
Context example:
Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality
Hypernyms ("Romantic Movement" is a kind of...):
artistic style; idiom (the style of a particular artist or school or movement)
arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))
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