Associations to the word «Romanticism»

Wiktionary

ROMANTICISM, noun. A romantic quality, spirit or action
ROMANTICISM, proper noun. An artistic and intellectual movement, stressing emotion, freedom and individual imagination, that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca