Idealization
[aɪ'dɪəlɪ'zeʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a portrayal of something as ideal; 'the idealization of rural life was very misleading'.
(noun.) something that exists only as an idea.
(noun.) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad.
Checker: Mae--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of idealizing.
(n.) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- Later it led to any idealization of existing institutions as themselves the embodiment of reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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