romanticism
Movies that present emotional stories of love, terror, and rescue, appeal to your sense of romanticism. Highly-charged situations of love and loss allow you to escape reality for a little while.
The suffix ism indicates a condition, so romanticism is the condition of being romantic, or yearning for the imaginative and adventurous. The word originally meant "of the Roman style," and referred to using Romance languages rather than the Frankish, or Germanic. It then came to mean Medieval tales of knightly chivalry, and later included love stories. In the late 18th Century, Romanticism became a major artistic movement, infusing art, music, and literature with the emotional cores of adventure and love.
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impractical romantic ideals and attitudestype of:idealismimpracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
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an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
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The suffix ism is added to words to mean "the process or action of" or "the system, principle, or theory of." We're sure you'll learn these -ism words with optimism!
The suffix ism is added to words to mean "the process or action of" or "the system, principle, or theory of." These four lists are arranged from easiest to most challenging. Learn them all and enjoy the feeling of optimism! Here are links to our lists in the collection: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
In Tennessee Williams's play, failed actor Chance Wayne takes up with fading starlet Alexandra del Lago and returns to his hometown of St. Cloud, Florida.