Romancing vs Romantic - What's the difference?
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The process or result of embellishing something into a romantic ideal.
* 1979 , Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (page 81)
(obsolete) Fictitious, imaginary.
Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person).
Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric.
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* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
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, title= Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate.
A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).
As a verb romancing
is .As a noun romancing
is the process or result of embellishing something into a romantic ideal.As an adjective romantic is
romantic (pertaining to the romance era).romancing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- But this is merely the best cinematic instance of those romancings of history that have always tapped the popular purse
romantic
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Alternative forms
* romantick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco.
- Somehow she wasn't a real sister, but that only made her the more romantic .
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Synonyms
* (concerned with romance) nonplatonic, lovesomeAntonyms
* platonic, queerplatonic, nonromantic, unromantic, aromantic, antiromantic, nonsexualDerived terms
* bromantic * romantically * romanticism * romanticnessNoun
(en noun)- Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic .