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What does romanticize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To interpret or view something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
  2. (intransitive) To think or act in a romantic manner.
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We romanticize depression as a wellspring of finer thought, as the source of melancholic insight for artists, deep thinkers and sensitive souls.
I fear that on occasion we tend to romanticize a career or a job decision that has long gone beyond the moment that we fixed it in time.
I don't want to romanticize it, because obviously we have plenty of evidence that marriage doesn't always work out this way.
During the past there has been a tendency in the West to romanticize civil society as the 'good guys' and the counterpoint to government power.
Next, they find volumes of poetry many of which romanticize pastoral themes and shepherding.
They don't romanticize the instrument's folk origins or go in for New Age contrivances.

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