romanticisation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of romanticization.
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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:"
Etymology
From romantic + -isation.
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable