romanticism

英 [rə(ʊ)'mæntɪsɪz(ə)m] 美[ro'mæntə'sɪzəm]

• n. 浪漫主义；浪漫精神

1. impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

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