romanticism
(noun)
noun
1. impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
Definition categories: attribute, idealism
2. 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
Definition categories: thought, idiom, arts, humanities
3. an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
Similar word(s): romance