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Romanticize vs Overromanticize - What's the difference?

romanticize | overromanticize |

In transitive terms the difference between romanticize and overromanticize

is that romanticize is to interpret or view something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner while overromanticize is to romanticize too much.

romanticize

English

Alternative forms

* romanticise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

  • To interpret or view something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
  • To think or act in a romantic manner.

    • overromanticize

    English

    Verb

    (overromanticiz)
  • To romanticize too much.
    • It's easy to overromanticize the Middle Ages, but they were full of plague and poverty.