Schwärmerei

[shver-muh-rahy]

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.

Example Sentences

Second place went to Stuti Mishra, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Orlando, Florida, who finished in second place after misspelling "schwarmerei," a German word for excessive enthusiasm.

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

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All the schwärmerei of letters, politics, art, and social life seemed to illustrate itself "in little" there.

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In one was the influence of France, in the other the native Schwärmerei.

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He allows no Schwärmerei about the stars.

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