English to English
noun
- impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
