Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being romantic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness.

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  • noun The state or quality of being romantic

Etymologies

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romantic +‎ ness

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Examples

  • Another system to conclude the "romanticness" of a contemporary is to conscious whether you will get the inadvertently b perhaps to talk and learn more close to each other.

    Article directories Celibataire Urbaine 2010

  • Another system to conclude the "romanticness" of a contemporary is to conscious whether you will get the inadvertently b perhaps to talk and learn more close to each other.

    Article directories Celibataire Urbaine 2010

  • She has been ordered, she says, to get ready to attend me thither: and, upon my expressing my averseness to go, had the confidence to say, That having heard me often praise the romanticness of the place, she was astonished (her hands and eyes lifted up) that I should set myself against going to

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But so the whirligig of time brings in its revenges, and the old-fashioned, as distinguished from the antique, begins to have a romanticness of its own.

    A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

  • There remains an ancient odd inscription here, which has such a whimsical mixture of devotion and romanticness that I must transcribe it: -

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • I don't wonder that Marquis Acciaudi's villa did not answer to you; by what I saw in Tuscany, and by the prints, their villas are strangely out of taste, and laboured by their unnatural regularity and art to destroy the romanticness of the situations.

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

  • She has been ordered, she says, to get ready to attend me thither: and, upon my expressing my averseness to go, had the confidence to say, That having heard me often praise the romanticness of the place, she was astonished (her hands and eyes lifted up) that I should set myself against going to a house so much in my taste.

    Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725

  • Well, the songs were all written at different times - some are two years old, some of them are a few months old, some of them are nearly three years old - but all of them were written in a vein of total, y'know, romanticness.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Rob Fitzpatrick 2010

  • A frustrated romanticness though - I had a weird thing going on emotionally.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Rob Fitzpatrick 2010

  • "'An' then, 'I went on,' we can go an 'have chi-VAL-rous adventures, -- or make believe we're havin' 'em, -- an 'build up a atmosphere of romanticness aroun' us that'll carry us back -- '

    Rudder Grange Frank Richard Stockton 1868

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