romanticism

See also: Romanticism

English

Etymology

From romantic +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

romanticism (countable and uncountable, plural romanticisms)

1. A romantic quality, spirit or action.
   • 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 July 2025:

     Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.

Derived terms

• antiromanticism
• aromanticism
• biromanticism
• heteroromanticism
• homoromanticism
• neo-romanticism
• neoromanticism
• panromanticism
• technoromanticism

Translations

romantic quality, spirit or action

• Albanian: romantizëm (sq) m
• Arabic: رُومَانْسِيَّة f (rūmānsiyya)
• Armenian: ռոմանտիզմ (hy) (ṙomantizm)
• Azerbaijani: romantizm
• Belarusian: рама́нтыка f (ramántyka), раманты́зм m (ramantýzm)
• Bulgarian: романти́зъм (bg) m (romantízǎm)
• Catalan: romanticisme m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 浪漫主義 / 浪漫主义 (long⁶ maan⁶ zyu² ji⁶)

  Mandarin: 浪漫主義 / 浪漫主义 (zh) (làngmàn zhǔyì)

• Czech: romantismus (cs) m
• Danish: romantik c
• Dutch: romantiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: romanikismo
• Estonian: romantism
• Finnish: romantiikka (fi)
• French: romantisme (fr) m, romanesque (fr) m or f
• Georgian: რომანტიზმი (romanṭizmi)
• German: Romantik (de) f
• Greek: ρομαντισμός (el) m (romantismós)
• Hindi: स्वच्छन्दतावाद (hi) m (svacchandatāvād), रोमांटिसिज़्म m (romāṇṭisizma)
• Hungarian: romanticizmus (hu), romantika (hu)
• Indonesian: romantisisme (id)
• Italian: romanticismo (it) m
• Japanese: ロマンチシズム (ja) (romanchishizumu), ロマン主義 (ja) (ロマンしゅぎ, romanshugi)
• Kazakh: романтизм (romantizm)
• Korean: 낭만주의(浪漫主義) (ko) (nangmanjuui), 랑만주의(浪漫主義) (rangmanjuui) (North Korea), 로맨티시즘 (romaentisijeum)
• Kyrgyz: романтизм (romantizm)
• Latvian: romantisms m
• Lithuanian: romantizmas (lt) m
• Macedonian: романти́зам m (romantízam)
• Malay: romantisisme
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: romantikk m

• Persian: رمانتیسم (fa) (romântism)
• Polish: romantyczność (pl) f, romantyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: romantismo (pt) m, romanticismo m
• Romanian: romantism (ro) n
• Russian: рома́нтика (ru) f (romántika), романти́зм (ru) m (romantízm), романти́чность (ru) f (romantíčnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рома̀нтично̄ст f, романтѝзам m

  Latin: romàntičnōst (sh) f, romantìzam (sh) m

• Slovak: romantizmus m
• Slovene: romantika f, romantizem m
• Spanish: romanticismo (es)
• Swedish: romantik (sv) c
• Tajik: романтизм (romantizm)
• Thai: จินตนิยม (jin-dtà-ní-yom)
• Ukrainian: рома́нтика f (romántyka), романти́зм (uk) m (romantýzm)
• Uzbek: romantizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa lãng mạn

Romanian

Etymology

From romantic +‎ -ism.

Noun

romanticism n (uncountable)

1. romanticism

   Synonym: romantism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	romanticism	romanticismul
genitive-dative	romanticism	romanticismului
vocative	romanticismule

References

• romanticism in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN