Meanings
alternative neo-romanticism · alternative Neoromanticism · alternative neo-Romanticism · alternative Neo-Romanticism
- capitalizedsometimesuncountableAny of various movements in art, architecture, literature, and philosophy, especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that exist after and incorporate elements of Romanticism.
I finally decided that the production was a work of neoromanticism, not only because I like a good ten-dollar word, but because the basic struggle here is between the young and the old.
1988 February 26, Tom Boeker, “The White Plague”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2020
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*nu
- Proto-Indo-European*néwos
- Proto-Hellenic*néwos
- Ancient Greekνέος (néos)
- Ancient Greekνεο- (neo-)
- Englishneo-
- LatinRōma
- LatinRōmānus
- Latinrōmānicus
- Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
- Old Frenchromanz
- Old Frenchromaunt
- Englishromant
- Englishromantic
- Englishromanticism
- Englishneoromanticism
From neo- + romanticism.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French néoromantisme
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German Neuromantik
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Italian neoromanticismo
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Cite this entry
neoromanticism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neoromanticism
“neoromanticism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neoromanticism. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “neoromanticism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/neoromanticism.
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