hyperromanticism

noun

Extreme or excessive romanticism.

OriginEnglish romanticism ← Old French romaunt ← Vulgar Latin rōmānicē →
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Meanings

nounhyperromanticism (uncountable)

alternative hyper-romanticism

  1. uncountableExtreme or excessive romanticism.

    All his previous compositions he now considered juvenalia or wrong starts buried too deeply in the harmonies of hyperromanticism.

    1982 February, “Carl Orff”, in Wilmot Robertson [pseudonym; John Humphrey Ireland], editor, Instauration, volume 7, number 3, Cape Canaveral, FL: Howard Allen Enterprises, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*hupér
  4. Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
  5. Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
  6. Englishhyper-
  7. LatinRōma
  8. LatinRōmānus
  9. Latinrōmānicus
  10. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  11. Old Frenchromanz
  12. Old Frenchromaunt
  13. Englishromant
  14. Englishromantic
  15. Englishromanticism
  16. Englishhyperromanticism

From hyper- + romanticism.

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