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romantasy

noun
/ɹəʊˈmæn.tə.si/UK/ɹoʊˈmæn.tə.si/US/ɹoʊˈmæ̃ɾ̃əsi/

Etymology

Blend of romance + fantasy. The term was popularized in 2020.

  1. derived from fantasier
  2. inherited from fantasien
  3. derived from *bʰh₂nyéti✻
  4. derived from φαντασία
  5. derived from phantasia
  6. derived from fantasie
  7. inherited from fantasie
  8. compounded as romantasy — “romance + fantasy”

Definitions

  1. A genre of literature combining elements of both romance and fantasy.

    • I want @lara_adrian 's book 7.! -.- sooo bad.! Best romantasy author ever.! (:
    • Well that's the typical girl in books Especially romance and "romantasy"
    • [Sarah J.] Maas, whose sales jumped 51 per cent this past year and was largely credited by Bloomsbury for a 15 per cent increase in total revenue, is technically classified as sci-fi or “romantasy”.

  2. A work in the genre

    A work in the genre; a romantic fantasy; a fantastical romance.

    • Every hostess knows Blue Willow, the lovers fleeing across the bridge, the turtle doves and all the other romantasies . . .
    • Are we light-hearted? Yes—if we counter warning-weariness by reading Gerald Bullett’s romantasy: When the cat’s away
    • Won’t you be my Valentine “romantasy”.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for romantasy. 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