Look up Romance, romance, or romantic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Romance may refer to:
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Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
Romantic orientation, the classification of the sex or gender with which a person experiences romantic attraction towards or is likely to have a romantic relationship with
Romantic friendship, a very close but typically non-sexual relationship between friends, often involving a degree of physical closeness beyond that which is common in contemporary Western societies
Gaslight romance, another name for gaslamp fantasy, featuring fantasy set at a time of approximately 19th-century technology
Planetary romance, a genre of science fiction consisting of adventure tales on exotic planets
Ruritanian romance, a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe
Scientific romance, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction
Chivalric romance literature, a branch of medieval and medievalist literature
Literature of Romanticism, a movement from the late 18th century that broke away from neoclassicism and which emphasized nature, the imagination and emotions
Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
Romance (prose fiction), a type of novel, especially, but not necessarily, a historical novel, and distinct from genre-fiction love romances