Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
romanticization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of indulging in sentiment
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word romanticisation.
Examples
-
One aspect of urban societies is a romanticisation of country life but hey, Romance novels are over in another section.
-
One aspect of urban societies is a romanticisation of country life but hey, Romance novels are over in another section.
-
One aspect of urban societies is a romanticisation of country life but hey, Romance novels are over in another section.
-
While I agree that consumer culture has kept us apathetic in many ways, your article/review sounds like a romanticisation of the 60's and 70's, which it was anything but romantic.
Regina Weinreich: Baader-Meinhof Complex, a New Film Based on True Events 2009
-
I´ve seen human life untouched by civilisation, and I´m no longer kindly inclined towards romanticisation of the premodern mentality, either in others or myself.
-
It would be progressive in a non-Christian manner- i.e., it would actively fight oppression without a moral romanticisation of suffering and a suspicion of prosperity and pleasure as the corollaries of oppression.
-
In short, I admire his neurotically precise world-creation, but I dislike his bucolic romanticisation of pre-industrialism and his moralism.
Another triple birthday, and a trip to DC! yendi 2004
-
"The ongoing romanticisation of hawkers lives, bores me to death."
-
The audience is quite aware of this romanticisation; it also knows - having been flooded with entertainments that purport to be "based on real events" - and doesn't mind that what it is seeing is not 100 per cent accurate either.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
-
In these years Bin Laden indulged in the extreme romanticisation of himself, a common pathology among all of history's terrorists.
BBC News - Home 2011
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.