What is the meaning of Romanticism?

noun

  • Impractical romantic ideals and attitudes.
  • A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization.
    • usage: "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"
  • An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure. ).
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