# family romance

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A romantic story about a given family.
2. A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty or otherwise of high birth; (loosely), the emotional ties linking the various members of a family.

## Etymology
From family + romance, in psychoanalytic sense after German Familienroman.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/family-romance