Rhapsodism

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A fervent and uninhibited expression of emotional excitement often associated with music or poetry is referred to as a passionate artistic practice that celebrates beauty in lyrical forms
2. It embodies an enthusiastic and ecstatic appreciation for art, particularly music and poetry, characterized by fervent emotional outpouring
3. An expressive and often intense celebration of beauty through art, particularly in music or poetry, is characterized by a profound emotional engagement and passionate exuberance

Etymology: In ancient Greece, a "rhapsōidos" was a professional reciter who performed epic poetry, especially Homer, at festivals. The name joins "rhaptein," meaning "to stitch" or "sew," and "ōidē," meaning "song," so a rhapsode was literally a song-stitcher, likely because these performers pieced episodes of long epics into a continuous recital. Scholars still debate the exact sense of the first element. The emotional meaning came much later. Rhapsody came to describe a free, impassioned piece of music or verse that seemed to pour out without regard for strict form, and the adjective "rhapsodic" took on the same unrestrained quality. Rhapsodism, formed with the suffix "-ism" to name a habit or practice of such rapturous expression, keeps that sense of ecstatic excess, far removed from the disciplined recitation of the original performers.