New Romanticism

proper noun

A youth fashion movement that peaked in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s, associated with synthpop music and flamboyant and sometimes androgynous attire.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A youth fashion movement that peaked in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s, associated with synthpop music and flamboyant and sometimes androgynous attire.

    Neither punk nor new romanticism were strictly urban affairs. The woodwork squeaked and out came the freaks from all corners of the country.

    2011 October 2, Boy George, “When we were heroes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Cite this entry
APA

New Romanticism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Romanticism

MLA

“New Romanticism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Romanticism. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “New Romanticism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Romanticism.

Source: New Romanticism on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.