romanticism

noun

1. impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

   noun.attribute

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

   noun.cognition

   Examples

   Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality.

   Synonyms romantic movement

   Antonyms classicalism classicism

   Source: WordNet 3.0

3. an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

   noun.attribute

   Synonyms romance

   Source: WordNet 3.0

4. 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