romanticism

Noun

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

• 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
    

• impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  romance , Romanticism , Romantic Movement
• Antonyms: 
  classicism , classicalism