romanticism
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• noun
An artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement originating in late 18th-century Europe that emphasized emotion, individualism, untamed nature, and imagination over Enlightenment rationalism and classical order.
"The poetry of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped define the early spirit of English romanticism."
The state or quality of being romantic, characterized by idealized, sentimental, or passionate attitudes toward love, life, or adventure.
"Despite years of practical setbacks, he never lost his youthful romanticism about traveling the world by sea."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the early 19th century from the adjective 'romantic' plus the suffix '-ism', modeled on French 'romantisme' and German 'Romantik' to describe the emerging European literary and artistic movement.