romanticism
Rose-colored glasses attitude
Romanticism in its general sense is a tendency to see the world through an idealized, emotional lens rather than a practical one.
It emphasizes passion, imagination, and feeling over reason: His romanticism about country life ignored the actual hardships.
The word often implies naivety or impracticality—a preference for how things should be over how they are. (Capitalized Romanticism is the artistic movement.)
Intense emotional drive
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
melancholy · rapture · heartfelt · tenderness · fervor · devotion · enchantment · wistfulness
Impractically perfect in conception
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- idealizedMade to seem perfect
- chivalrousHonorably courteous and brave
- nobleTitled or virtuous
heroic · visionary · dreamy · lofty · idyllic · aspirational · perfectionism · impractical
passion
Intense emotional drive
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- sentimentalityExcessive tender emotion
ardor · melancholy · rapture · heartfelt · tenderness · fervor · devotion · enchantment · wistfulness · intensity
utopian
Impractically perfect in conception
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- idealizedMade to seem perfect
- chivalrousHonorably courteous and brave
noble · heroic · visionary · dreamy · lofty · idyllic · aspirational · perfectionism · impractical · unrealistic
- -ismsatomism, postmodernism, feminism, Marxism, Darwinism
- 19th century artimpressionism, realism, neoclassicism, symbolism, art nouveau
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- European cultureFrench cuisine, Italian art, opera, ballet, Renaissance
romanticismclassicism
Adherence to ancient artistic principles
neoclassicism · realism · naturalism · rationalism · modernism
romanticismrealism
Accepting things as they are
cynicism · pragmatism · materialism · rationalism · skepticism
romanticismpracticality
Quality of being useful
antipathy · indifference · lovelessness · dispassion · pragmatism
- romanticized historyIdealized view of bygone eras
romanticize, romanticist, romanticized, romanticizes, romanticizing, romanticists, romanticisms