Romantic vs. Nostalgic — What's the Difference?

Having, showing, expressive of, or conducive to feelings of love or romance

A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.

Imaginative but impractical; visionary

The condition of being homesick; homesickness.

Not based on fact; idealized or fictitious

Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of artistic romance

A person who displays nostalgia for something.

Often Romantic Of or characteristic of romanticism in the arts.

Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

A romantic person.

Unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons

Often Romantic A follower or adherent of romanticism.

Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic.

(obsolete) Fictitious, imaginary.

Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).

Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.

Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.

Alternative form of Romantic

Experiencing romantic attraction.

A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).

A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).

Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.

Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.

Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; - applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

A soulful or amorous idealist

An artist of the romantic period or someone influenced by romanticism

Belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic movement in the arts;

Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance;

Not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic;