romanticisation

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English

Etymology

From romantic +‎ -isation.

Noun

romanticisation (countable and uncountable, plural romanticisations)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of romanticization.
    • 2018 October 10, Keza MacDonald, “Red Dead Redemption 2: three hours with the most anticipated game of the year”, in The Guardian:
      It gave me more of a Cormac McCarthy vibe than a Westworld one, hinting at the death of the old west, the consequences of America’s rapid industrialisation and the death of a way of life, rather than a straightforward romanticisation of the frontier and its outlaw heroes.
    • 2019, Joe Trotta, ‎Zlatan Filipovic, ‎Houman Sadri, Broken Mirrors, page 1995:
      Life is finally loose, one could say, liberated from its social constrains and sincere in its necessities, its insistence and its arrogative demands, but McCarthy also reveals the implications of life's liberation and, by the same token, unmasks any misplaced romanticisations regarding its disavowal in the polis: