Romancelandia
nameEtymology
From romance + -land + -ia. Popularized within the romance literature community beginning in the late 2000s to early 2010s. First attested in print in 2009.
Definitions
The sphere or community of romance writers, readers, and novels.
- Paranormals had been on the fringes of Romancelandia almost since its inception but became huge business in the early 2000s.
- I became a native of Romancelandia, writing “from the heart” (as the disgruntled woman at my talk said), from my dual but not dueling hearts, simultaneously crafting academic and fiction writing about falling in love.
- RT was created and run by RT Book Reviews magazine, formerly known as Romantic Times, which was for many years the paper of record in Romancelandia.
The idealized fictional setting of romance novels.
- In other words, fictionalized Arabiastan in desert romancelandia bears some resemblance both to contemporary Saudi Arabia and to a historical notion of the Arabian Peninsula.
- In real life, I hope these kind of IVF mistakes don't happen, but in Romancelandia, when it happens, there's always a sexy, single billionaire involved!
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Romancelandia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA