Schwärmerei

American  

[shver-muh-rahy] / ˌʃvɛr məˈraɪ /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.

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Schwärmerei

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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

The undisciplined mystic, in his reliance on the inner light, may fall into various kinds of Schwärmerei and superstition.

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

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 Calvin Thomas

As to Berlin, I think she has enjoyed it, but she talks very scornfully of German Schwärmerei and German women, and she tells the oddest stories of her professors.

From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward

But these moments of high enthusiasm are rare; and Kant commends sobriety and warns against high-minded Schwärmerei, or over-strained Mysticism.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel