romanticism
ro.man.ti.cism \ro--'mant-*-.siz-*m, r*-\ \-s*st\ n 1: the quality or state
of being romantic often cap 2a1: a literary, artistic, and philosophical
movement originating in the 18 th century, characterized chiefly by a
reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and
emotions, and marked esp. in English literature by sensibility and the use
of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common
man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a
predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms
2a2: an aspect of romanticism 2b: adherence to or practice of romantic
doctrine or assumptions often cap - ro.man.ti.cist n