ROMANTICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Romanticism mean? 

• ROMANTICISM (noun)
  The noun ROMANTICISM has 3 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: ROMANTICISM used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMANTICISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("romanticism" is a kind of...):

idealism (impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are)

Derivation:

romantic (not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic)

romanticist (someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality)

Sense 2

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 ("Romanticism" 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))

Antonym:

classicism (a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms)

Derivation:

romantic (belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts)

romanticist (an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism)

romanticistic (belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

romance; romanticism

Hypernyms ("romanticism" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romanticism"):

stardust (a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality)