romanticnessn.
/rə(ʊ)ˈmantᵻknᵻs/, U.S. /roʊˈmæn(t)ɪknᵻs/ The quality or character of being romantic (in various senses).
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > quality appealing to emotion or imagination > [noun]
romanticness1701
colour1733
romanticalness1770
romanticality1773
romanticity1782
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > [noun]
romanticness1701
romanticality1773
romanceishness1835
1701 C. Mather Coll. Many Offensive Matters To Rdr. sig. A1v The Weakness of the Arguing, the Romantickness of the Phrase, and the Air of the Author in vilifying his Superiors.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. viii. 36 Having heard me often praise the romantic-ness of the place.
1809 E. Thomas Monte Video (1816) II. xi. 97 The romanticness of his stolen interviews with his bride.
1874 A. M. Diaz Lucy Maria xxvi. 179 This unstableness is caused by a hidden love..which was kindled years ago... And then romanticness is not my only attribute.
1901 H. A. Beers Hist. Eng. Romanticism in 19th Cent. viii. 401 The old-fashioned, as distinguished from the antique, begins to have a romanticness of its own.
1968 H. Koningsberger Revolutionary v. 13 The romanticness of..tears shed by women in Turgenev.
2003 People (Nexis) 28 Sept. 4 There's no affair or anything. I've only been seeing her for 10 days... We haven't had any romanticness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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