Schwärmerei

American  

[shver-muh-rahy] / ˌʃvɛr məˈraɪ /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.

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Example Sentences

They have but little of that dreamy Schwärmerei with which the people of the North are largely gifted.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Then, as if momentarily abashed by his own extravagance of expression, he protests that his Schwärmerei, if such it be, is nothing but a 'joyful paroxysm anticipating our future greatness'.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

But he was as much opposed to the pretentiousness of dogmatic metaphysics as to the pusillanimity of scepticism and the Schwärmerei of mysticism.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various