- 1a 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
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- 2the quality of seeing people, events, and situations as more exciting and interesting than they really are
- 3strong feelings of love; the fact of showing emotion, affection, etc.
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