romantics
Lovers of love
Romantics are people inclined toward romance, idealism, or emotional expression.
Someone who believes in love at first sight or writes poetry by candlelight might be called a romantic.
Capitalized, the Romantics were artists and writers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries—Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley—who emphasized emotion, nature, and individual experience over classical restraint: The Romantics rebelled against Enlightenment rationalism.
Imagined perfect society
- transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
philosophy · enlightenment · aspiration · perfectionism · optimism · chivalry · principles · altruism
Longing for the past
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- poignancyPiercing emotional quality
bittersweet · reminiscence · heartstrings · soulful · emotive · sensibility · pathos · affectionate
Intense emotional warmth
- desireIntense wanting
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
fervor · intensity · ecstasy · rapture · fire · burning · obsession · zeal
Imaginative mental wandering
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- whimsicalPlayfully fanciful or erratic
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
daydream · imagination · fanciful · wistful · starry-eyed · idealized · head-in-clouds · moonstruck
utopia
Imagined perfect society
- transcendentalismIntuition-based idealist philosophy
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
sublime · philosophy · enlightenment · aspiration · perfectionism · optimism · chivalry · principles · altruism · idealist
nostalgia
Longing for the past
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
poignancy · bittersweet · reminiscence · heartstrings · soulful · emotive · sensibility · pathos · affectionate · maudlin
ardor
Intense emotional warmth
- desireIntense wanting
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- longingIntense, persistent desire
yearning · fervor · intensity · ecstasy · rapture · fire · burning · obsession · zeal · craving
fantasy
Imaginative mental wandering
- etherealDelicate beyond earthly measure
- whimsicalPlayfully fanciful or erratic
- enchantmentMagical influence over someone
reverie · daydream · imagination · fanciful · wistful · starry-eyed · idealized · head-in-clouds · moonstruck · rapturous
sweethearts
Romantic partners, affectionately named
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- affectionWarm emotional attachment
- coupleTwo linked together
intimacy · partnership · devotion · amour · tryst · soulmates · companionship · fondness · cherish · adore
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- philosophersAristotle, Plato, Socrates, Kant, Descartes
- emotional typesdepressed people, optimists, pessimists, grumps, worriers
- Utopiansutopians, idealists, visionaries, dreamers, communitarians
- woolgatherersdaydreamers, dreamers, fantasizers, muser
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, journalist
romanticscynics
Doubters of sincerity
skeptics · realists · pragmatists · pessimists · misanthropes
romanticsclassicists
Scholars of antiquity
neoclassicists · rationalists · realists · naturalists · positivists
romanticspragmatists
Those valuing practical results
realists · rationalists · utilitarians · materialists · calculators
- romantic comedyHumorous love story genre
- romantic obsessionFixated longing for another
- romantic dinnerIntimate meal for two
- hopeless romanticPerson seeking idealized love
- romantic loveDeep amorous attachment
- romantic comediesHumorous films about love
romantic, Romanticism, unromantic, romantically, unromantically