romanticism

Universal Words noun [U] 1 (also Romanticism) a style and movement in art, music and literature in the late 18th and early 19th century, in which strong feelings, imagination and a return to nature were more important than reason, order and intellectual ideas compareREALISM 2 the quality of seeing people, events and situations as more exciting and interesting than they really are 3 strong feelings of love; the fact of showing emotion, affection, etc.