1. romanticism

noun. ['roʊˈmæntəˌsɪzəm'] impractical romantic ideals and attitudes.

Words that Rhyme with Romanticism

• abolitionism
• absenteeism
• absolutism
• activism
• adventurism
• adventurism
• agrarianism
• alcoholism
• altruism
• amateurism
• americanism
• anachronism
• aneurism
• anglo-catholicism
• animism
• antagonism
• anthropomorphism
• anti-catholicism
• anti-catholicism
• antidisestablishmentarianism

Example sentences of the word romanticism

1. Noun, singular or mass
Nature also plays a large role in this story, placing it in the romanticism classification.

Quotes containing the word romanticism

1. Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
- George Edward Woodberry

2. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
- Okakura Kakuzō, The Book of Tea

3. Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
- Alfred de Musset

2. romanticism

noun. ['roʊˈmæntəˌsɪzəm'] an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure).

3. Romanticism

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