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romanticism
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noun (n)
- impractical romantic ideals and attitudes(noun.attribute)source: wordnet30
- a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization(noun.cognition)Example:
Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality.
source: wordnet30 - an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)(noun.attribute)source: wordnet30
- 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.(noun)source: webster1913