noun
a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
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Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality
• Syn: ↑Romanticism
• Ant: ↑classicism (for: ↑Romanticism)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑romanticistic (for: ↑Romanticism), ↑romantic (for: ↑Romanticism), ↑romanticist (for: ↑Romanticism)
• Hypernyms: ↑humanistic discipline, ↑humanities, ↑liberal arts, ↑arts, ↑artistic style, ↑idiom
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the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature.
[1875-80]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.