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romanticize

The actual motherfricking définition of the word ‘romanticize’

deal with or describe in an idealized or unrealistic fashion; make (something) seem better or more appealing than it really is.

For example: (not hating on Melanie Martinez bc she is a good example when it comes to mind on the word romanticise)
Guy 1: Melanie Martinez romanticizes mental illness

Guy 2: That’s an understatement
by Shrek-Tastic! August 7, 2018
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Romanticide

A. "scientific deffinition" The art of loving someone that inevertedly causes ones own demise. The victim is completly aware of the outcome, but cannot bring one self to forget about the person they have fallen in love with.

B. "emo deffinition" When you love a being so completly with mind, body, and soul, and they disease your every thought, suffocating you, and you eventually find yourself drowning in the black abyss of rejection/ignorance and/or attention. Usually the only way out is death. and/or chocolate... maybe friends too... if you're lucky.
Sally loves Bob, so much. but Bob loves Jack. Sally can't forget about Bob, so she is slowly commiting romanticide.
by goodbyePLATYPUS April 25, 2006
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romanticism

A particular school of thought represented in art, writing and thinking originating in Europe during the 18th century. Moving away from most traditional ideas of the time, it put a strong importance on individuality, nature, love, and creativity.
Austen, Coleridge, and Wordsworth were all creator/followers of romanticism.
by Dan54321 July 6, 2006
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Romantizice

Make something seem better or more appealing than it really is
Ex 1:

-I want to date a bad boy!
-You're just romantizicing it for what you've seen in movies.

Ex 2:

People romantizice everything these days: accents, unhealthy relationships, drugs, alcohol.
by Bellachris April 19, 2017
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new romantics

Camp 80s pop music movement in Britain which produced several noted performers and artists.
Culture club, Leigh Bowery, David LaChapelle, Kate Bush, Adam and the Ants.
Modeled themselves on the Romantic period of the 1800s which focused on love and joy etc. as the way to live your life.
Men wearing make-up and dressing more effeminitely was a popular part of New-Romanticism.
by Gigi July 13, 2004
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Rofanticise

the romanticised and fanticised way people look at past civilisations (living or dead), without taking into account the hardships, shortcomings, small mindedness, and general crappiness those ways of living or societies generally contained. see; 1940's/50's America, Hunter gatherer tribes, Ancient Rome, Ancient Norse, Medieval Europe, Victorian England, ect.
people commonly rofanticise 1940's and 1950's American society forgetting segregation, sexism and war.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is a film that has rofanticised the golden age of piracy.

Steam Punk is a great example of how rofanticising can influence culture.
by Adam in Darwin April 25, 2021
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romanticidal

Similar to the word suicidal but the difference being that you have been rejected/not noticed by the one you have truly fallen in love with and the only way out may be suicide, if you are a person whom contemplates suicide for this reason you are known as 'Romanticidal'

See romanticide
He love him but he loves her, he will turn romanticidal if he is continued to be ignored.
by Iain C October 3, 2007
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