/ rəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm; NAmE roʊ-/ noun [ U ]
1.
(also Romanticism ) a style and movement in art, music and literature in the late 18th and early 19th century, in which strong feelings, imagination and a return to nature were more important than reason, order and intellectual ideas
—compare realism
2.
the quality of seeing people, events and situations as more exciting and interesting than they really are
3.
strong feelings of love; the fact of showing emotion, affection, etc.