Schwärmerei

American  

[shver-muh-rahy] / ˌʃvɛr məˈraɪ /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.

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Example Sentences

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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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

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

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

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

Did she, remembering my well-known susceptibility, fear that I might fall in love with him and compromise myself by some silly Schwärmerei?

From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie