🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

romanticizar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: romanticizar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
romanticize/roʊˈmæntɪˌsaɪz/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Las películas suelen romanticizar la vida en la gran ciudad."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To deal with or describe in an idealized or unrealistically emotional fashion; to make something seem better or more appealing than it really is.

    "It is easy to romanticize the past and forget the hardships people faced back then."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'romantic' + '-ize', reflecting the 19th-century influence of Romanticism in viewing subjects in an idealized, unrealistic light.

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