romancing

The process or result of embellishing something into a romantic ideal.

Noun

  1. The process or result of embellishing something into a romantic ideal.
    • But this is merely the best cinematic instance of those romancings of history that have always tapped the popular purse[…] - 1979, Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, page 81:

Forms

romancings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of romance