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romanticism collapse: impractical romantic ideals and attitudes; an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure); a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"

self collapse: your consciousness of your own identity; a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"; (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self; "self-knowledge"; "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced"

exemplary collapse: worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"

sweetheart collapse: any well-liked individual; "he's a sweetheart"; a person loved by another person; privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); "another sweetheart deal based on political influence"

esquire collapse: a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name; (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight; a candidate for knighthood

chimera collapse: a grotesque product of the imagination; (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

masterpiece collapse: an outstanding achievement; the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman

quintessential collapse: representing the perfect example of a class or quality

gallant collapse: unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"; having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"

ego collapse: (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind; an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

utopian collapse: an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"; characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"; of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia; "a Utopian novel"

notional collapse: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

jet set collapse: a set of rich and fashionable people who travel widely for pleasure

typical collapse: conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"; exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"

pipe dream collapse: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

spark collapse: a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction; Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918); a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency"; emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"

lodestar collapse: something that serves as a model or guide; guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation of astronomy

pleasure principle collapse: (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

utopia collapse: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal; a work of fiction describing a utopia; a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island; ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

Casanova collapse: any man noted for his amorous adventures; an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)

universal collapse: a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings; "some form of religion seems to be a human universal"; (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class; (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages; adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations; "universal wrench", "universal chuck"; "universal screwdriver"; applicable to or common to all members of a group or set; "the play opened to universal acclaim"; "rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys"

unreality collapse: the quality possessed by something that is unreal; the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact

transcendent collapse: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of life"; exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

drawing room collapse: a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained; a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet

abstruse collapse: difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

standard collapse: any distinctive flag; an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support); "distance was marked by standards every mile"; "lamps supported on standards provided illumination"; a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with federal standards"; "they set the measure for all subsequent work"; the value behind the money in a monetary system; a board measure = 1980 board feet; commonly used or supplied; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment"; regularly and widely used or sold; "a standard size"; "a stock item"; established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"; conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width"; "standard sizes"; "the standard fixtures"; "standard brands"; "standard operating procedure"; conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British)

very collapse: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"; precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite"

pursue collapse: follow in or as if in pursuit; "The police car pursued the suspected attacker"; "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life"; carry further or advance; "Can you act on this matter soon?"

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