romanticism
/ɹəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/
romanticism noun: a romantic quality, spirit or action.
Noun
romanticism (countable and uncountable, plural romanticisms)
- A romantic quality, spirit or action.
- On at least ONE day of the week the Jew could conjure up a Messianic era where he breathed freely and happily. This romanticism is voiced in the Sabbath-songs of the Jews throughout the Diaspora.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 368
- Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025
Proper noun capitalized: Romanticism
Romanticism
- An intellectual (especially artistic, literary, and musical) movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, peaking from 1800 to 1850, characterized by an emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of nature and the past, preferring the medieval to the classical.
- Antonyms:
- classical
romanticism meaning in Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
romanticism in Hindi
- romantic quality, spirit or action
- स्वच्छन्दतावाद svacchandatāvād, रोमांटिसिज़्म romāṇṭisizma
romanticism in Malayalam
- കാല്പനിക പ്രസ്ഥാനം, രചനാശൈലി, ആവിഷ്ക്കരണ രീതി, കാൽപ്പനികതാവാദം
romanticism in Kannada
- ರೊಮ್ಯಾಂಟಿಸಿಸಂ
romanticism in Arabic
- romantic quality, spirit or action
- رُومَانْسِيَّة rūmānsiyya
More languagesFewer languages
- romanticism in Malay
- romantisisme
- romanticism in Indonesian
- romantisisme
- romanticism in Persian
- رمانتیسم romântism
- romanticism in Thai
- จินตนิยม jin-dtà-ní-yom
- romanticism in Vietnamese
- chủ nghĩa lãng mạn
Antonyms of romanticism
Forms of romanticism
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Origin of romanticism
From romantic + -ism.
Words formed from romanticism
Phrases with romanticism
Questions about romanticism
- What does romanticism mean?
- Romanticism means a romantic quality, spirit or action.
- What is romanticism in Hindi?
- Romanticism in Hindi is स्वच्छन्दतावाद (svacchandatāvād), रोमांटिसिज़्म (romāṇṭisizma). See Romanticism meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is romanticism?
- Romanticism can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce romanticism?
- Romanticism is pronounced /ɹəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/.
- What is the plural of romanticism?
- The plural of romanticism is romanticisms.
Words near romanticism in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: romanticism (page history and authors); Romanticism (page history and authors); romanticism (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); romanticism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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