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Romanticize vs Sexualize - What's the difference?

romanticize | sexualize |

As verbs the difference between romanticize and sexualize

is that romanticize is to interpret or view something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner while sexualize is to make sexual.

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.

    • sexualize

    English

    Verb

    (sexualiz)
  • To make sexual.
    • Children's beauty pageants sexualize childhood.