Romanticism vs Materialism - What's the difference?
romanticism | materialism |
Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
* Buckminster
(philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
(obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
As nouns the difference between romanticism and materialism
is that romanticism is a romantic quality, spirit or action while materialism is constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.As a proper noun Romanticism
is 18th Century artistic and intellectual movement which stressed emotion, freedom and individual imagination.materialism
English
(wikipedia materialism)Noun
- The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.