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Noun: Romantic Movement
  1. A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
    "Romantic Movement valued imagination and emotion over rationality";
    - Romanticism

Type of: artistic style, arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, idiom, liberal arts

Antonym: classicalism

Encyclopedia: Romantic Movement