romanticism
noun/ɹəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/
Etymology From romantic + -ism.
1
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:
- Derived terms
- antiromanticism, aromanticism, biromanticism, heteroromanticism, homoromanticism, neo-romanticism, neoromanticism, panromanticism, technoromanticism