different between fascination vs romance

English

Etymology

From Latin fascinare ("to bewitch"), possibly from Ancient Greek ?????????? (baskaínien, “to speak ill of; to curse”)Morphologically fascinate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæs??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

fascination (countable and uncountable, plural fascinations)

1. (archaic) The act of bewitching, or enchanting

   Synonyms: enchantment, witchcraft

   • Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

2. The state or condition of being fascinated.
   • 1934, Robert Ervin Howard, The People of the Black Circle

     Sliding down the shaft he lay still, the spear jutting above him its full length, like a horrible stalk growing out of his back.
     The girl stared down at him in morbid fascination, until Khemsa took her arm and led her through the gate.

   • 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China

     But the compensations are many: changing scenes, long days out of doors, freedom from the bondage of conventional life, and above all, the fascination of living among peoples of primitive simplicity and yet of a civilization so ancient that it makes all that is oldest in the West seem raw and crude and unfinished.

3. Something which fascinates.

Derived terms

• dread fascination

Translations

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.si.na.sj??/

Noun

fascination f (plural fascinations)

1. fascination

Related terms

• fasciner

Further reading

• “fascination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin r?m?nic?, Vulgar Latin r?m?nic? (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin r?m?nicus (“roman”, adj) from r?m?nus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??mæns/, /??o??mæns/, enPR: r?-m?ns'
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???mæns/, /?????mæns/
• Rhymes: -æns, -??mæns

Noun

romance (countable and uncountable, plural romances)

1. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
2. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
3. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
4. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
5. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
6. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
7. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
8. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.

   His life was a romance.

9. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.

   She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.

10. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:romance.

Antonyms

• (intimate relationship): platonic, platonic relationship, platonic love, nonromance, antiromance (with respect to intimacy)

Derived terms

• romantic

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????
• ? Korean: ??? (romaenseu)

Related terms

Translations

Verb

romance (third-person singular simple present romances, present participle romancing, simple past and past participle romanced)

1. (transitive) To woo; to court.
2. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
3. (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.

Synonyms

• (to woo, court): make love, put the moves on, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo

Anagrams

• Cameron, Canmore, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Romanze, from French romance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro??m?n.s?/
• Hyphenation: ro?man?ce
• Rhymes: -?ns?

Noun

romance f (plural romances or romancen)

1. (literature, music, historical) An emotional popular-historical epic ballad. [from late 18th c.]
2. (literature, music) A sentimental love song or love story.

Derived terms

• romancedichter

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: roman

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, meaning a narrative work in the vernacular speech, from Vulgar Latin *roman?ce (“in a Roman manner”), compare Medieval Latin r?m?nice, ultimately from Latin r?m?nicus. See also roman (“novel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.m??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

romance f (plural romances)

1. a ballad; a love song

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Verb

romance

1. first-person singular present indicative of romancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of romancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of romancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of romancer
5. second-person singular imperative of romancer

Interlingua

Noun

romance (plural romances)

1. novel

Adjective

romance (comparative plus romance, superlative le plus romance)

1. Romance

Italian

Adjective

romance

1. feminine plural of romancio

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin r?m?nic? (“in a Roman manner”), from Latin r?m?nicus (“Roman”, adjective), from r?m?nus (“Roman”, noun), from R?ma (“Rome”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?o.?m??.si/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ho.?m??.se/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?u.?m??.s?/
• Hyphenation: ro?man?ce

Noun

romance m (plural romances)

1. (literature) novel (work of prose fiction)
2. romance; love affair

   Synonym: caso

Derived terms

• romance de folhetim
• romance de cavalaria

Related terms

Adjective

romance m or f (plural romances, not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Romance (of the languages derived from Latin)

   Synonyms: neolatim, romanço, românico

Derived terms

• reto-romance

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, or Old French romanz, from Vulgar Latin *roman?ce, compare Medieval Latin r?m?nice, ultimately from Latin r?m?nicus < r?m?nus. Cognates include Old French romanz, whence the modern French noun roman (“novel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ro?man?e/, [ro?mãn?.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ro?manse/, [ro?mãn.se]

Adjective

romance (plural romances)

1. Romance

   Synonym: románico

Derived terms

• lengua romance

Noun

romance m (plural romances)

1. romance, love affair
2. romance (genre)
3. novel

   Synonym: novela

4. Spanish (language)

   Synonyms: castellano, español

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• en buen romance

Descendants

• ? French: romance (see there for further descendants)

Verb

romance

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of romanzar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of romanzar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of romanzar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of romanzar.

References