romanticizev.
/rə(ʊ)ˈmantᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /roʊˈmæn(t)əˌsaɪz/ 1. transitive. To make romantic or idealized in character; to make (something) seem better or more appealing than it really is; to describe, portray, or view in a romantic manner.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > quality appealing to emotion or imagination > render romantic [verb (transitive)]
romanticize1818
romance1820
exoticize1969
1818 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 690 A wood..which the old workman..has romanticised with..fifty seats and honeysuckle bowers.
1836 Fraser's Mag. 14 720 The endless succession of Giaours, Childe Harolds, Laras, Corsairs,..which have romanticised French taste.
1900 Brit. Weekly 10 May 70/4 Modern feeling has greatly romanticised, we do not say raised, the idea of love.
1932 J. F. Dobie Tone Bell Easy 9 A kind of relationship..once romanticised by Thomas Nelson Page and other writers.
1958 E. Cooper Tomorrow's Gift 129 In his own way Lukas had previously tended to romanticize the ‘noble savage’.
2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 5 Feb. i. 8/6 No one romanticizes academically failing schools.
2. intransitive. To indulge in romantic thoughts, words, or actions; to speak or think in a romantic or idealistic way.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > indulge in romance [verb (intransitive)]
poetize1595
romanticize1833
1833 Court Jrnl. 10 Aug. 546/2 So many distinguished authors have taken to moralizing upon men and things, instead of romanticizing about men and women.
1868 Daily News 21 Dec. A gentleman..may be led on, like Pendennis with Fanny Bolton, to flirt and romanticise beneath him.
1900 M. Kingsley Mem. in G. H. Kingsley Notes Sport & Trav. v. 105 An American lady, who went off in a boat..in order to romanticise in the moonlight.
1966 Negro Digest Oct. 65/1 We can romanticize about ‘magic’, ‘new culture’, etc., but material progress for our broad masses will do more spiritually—and culturally—than a thousand witch chants.
2003 A. Collins Where did it all go Right? iii. 48 Unless I'm romanticising, as long as you joined in the ad hoc games of football or Stony or Tiggy Off Ground you were alright.
Derivatives
roˈmanticized adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [adjective] > romanticized
romanticized1850
1850 Internat. Weekly Misc. Lit., Art., & Sci. 29 July 132/2 The great poet [sc. Lamartine] confided to the proprietors of Le Constitutionel a new chapter of his romanticized memoirs.
1901 Catholic Univ. Bull. 7 203 This..corpus of hagiology..bore along in a romantic world and time the romanticized story of the persecutions.
1988 Music & Lett. 69 520 He has written the present book not as a romanticized or ‘imaginary’ biography.
roˈmanticizing n. and adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [adjective] > romanticizing
romancing1673
romancical1822
romanticizing1830
1830 Collegian (Cambridge, Mass.) Apr. 129 I am singularly reserved in my affections, and very little given to romanticizing.
1867 Spectator 6 Apr. 387 We cannot but marvel exceedingly that the romanticizing critics have not made the discovery for us.
1899 Speaker 14 Apr. 424/2 Enlivened by champagne and some grotesque romanticising on the part of the amorous Duchess.
1977 S. Sontag Illness as Metaphor iv. 36 The romanticizing of madness reflects in the most vehement way the contemporary prestige of irrational or rude (spontaneous) behavior.
1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 May 24/2 The glossy..and romanticizing photographs in travel books are no preparation for the wretchedness of the human condition in Patan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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