romanticizer

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noun

One who romanticizes.

OriginEnglish romanticize ← Old French romaunt ← Vulgar Latin rōmānicē →
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Meanings

nounromanticizer (plural romanticizers)

plural romanticizers

  1. One who romanticizes.

    […] dismissed as a Victorian romanticizer who put deer on every hillside and left no loch unwaded by Highland cattle […]

    1985, Books in Scotland, numbers 19-29, page 19

Origin

  1. LatinRōma
  2. LatinRōmānus
  3. Latinrōmānicus
  4. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  5. Old Frenchromanz
  6. Old Frenchromaunt
  7. Englishromant
  8. Englishromantic
  9. Englishromanticize
  10. Englishromanticizer

From romanticize + -er.

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APA

romanticizer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/romanticizer

MLA

“romanticizer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/romanticizer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “romanticizer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/romanticizer.

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