Romanticism Definition

rō-măntĭ-sĭzəm
noun
An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions.
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Romantic spirit, outlook, tendency, etc.
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Romantic Movement.

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The spirit, attitudes, style, etc. of, or adherence to, the Romantic Movement or a similar movement.
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18th Century artistic and intellectual movement which stressed emotion, freedom and individual imagination.

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romanticism
Plural:
romanticisms

Romanticism Sentence Examples

  • Wilhelm Meister is a work of extraordinary variety, ranging from the commonplace realism of the troupe of strolling players to the poetic romanticism of Mignon and the harper; its flashes of intuitive criticism and its weighty apothegms add to its value as a Bildungsroman in the best sense of that word.

  • Munich is still the leading school of painting in Germany, but the romanticism of the earlier masters has been abandoned for drawing and colouring of a realistic character.

  • Music in the late 18thcentury was marked by an ethos of Romanticism.

  • Catholic romanticism had withered Alienation away in France, as it had in Germany.

  • With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism.

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