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ro·man·ti·cism
 romanticism
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- pronunciation:
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(usu. cap.) a European artistic and intellectual movement of the early nineteenth century, characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom from social conventions or political restraints, on human imagination, and on nature, usu. in an idealized form. (Cf. classicism.)
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the thoughts, attitudes, style, or tendencies characteristic of this movement.
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