say it: roh-MAN-tuh-siz-uhm
romanticism is a noun meaning "impractical romantic ideals and attitudes". It carries 3 recorded senses.
impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for romanticism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.