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Romancing vs Romanticizing - What's the difference?

romancing | romanticizing |

As verbs the difference between romancing and romanticizing

is that romancing is while romanticizing is (us).

As a noun romancing

is the process or result of embellishing something into a romantic ideal.

romancing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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)
    • But this is merely the best cinematic instance of those romancings of history that have always tapped the popular purse

    romanticizing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK) romanticising

    Verb

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  • (US)