romance n
1 affair, affaire (du coeur), affair of the heart, amour, attachment, intrigue, liaison, love affair, passion, relationship
2 adventure, charm, colour, excitement, exoticness, fascination, glamour, mystery, nostalgia, sentiment
3 fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, idyll, legend, love story, melodrama, novel, story, tale, tear-jerker (informal)
4 absurdity, exaggeration, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fiction, flight of fancy, invention, lie, tall story (informal) trumped-up story vb
5 be economical with the truth, exaggerate, fantasize, let one's imagination run away with one, lie, make up stories, stretch the truth, tell stories