romance

A love affair.

Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love.

A strong, sometimes short-lived attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something.

A mysterious or fascinating quality or appeal, as of something adventurous, heroic, or strangely beautiful.

A long medieval narrative in prose or verse that tells of the adventures and heroic exploits of chivalric heroes.

A long fictitious tale of heroes and extraordinary or mysterious events, usually set in a distant time or place.

The class of literature constituted by such tales.