1. (

• romanticism

) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes ;

2. (

• Romanticism ,
• Romantic_Movement

) 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" ;

3. (

• romanticism ,
• romance

) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) ;