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[ noun ] impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

His love of folklore has romanticism in it , and he does n't care much about the dollar_sign or the footnote .

Related terms

idealism

2
[ noun ] a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

Examples

"romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"

3
[ noun ] an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

Synonyms

romance

Related terms

quality stardust romance

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