About The Word Idealization
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Idealization
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What's The Definition Of Idealization?
[n] a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
[n] something that exists only as an idea [n] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad Synonyms | Synonyms for Idealization: glorification | idealisation | idealisation | idealisation Related Terms | Find terms related to Idealization: airiness | appearance | autism | autistic thinking | delusiveness | dematerialization | dereism | dereistic thinking | disembodiment | dreamery | etherealization | fallaciousness | false appearance | false light | false show | falseness | flight of fancy | ideal | idealism | ideality | illusionism | illusionist | illusiveness | imaginative exercise | immateriality | immaterialization | impracticality | magic | magic act | magic show | magician | play of fancy | prestidigitation | Prospero | quixotism | quixotry | romance | romanticism | seeming | semblance | show | simulacrum | sleight of hand | sorcerer | sorcery | specious appearance | spiritualization | unactuality | unpracticalness | unrealism | unreality | unsubstantiality | unsubstantialization | utopianism | visionariness | wish fulfillment | wishful thinking | wish-fulfillment fantasy See Also | admiration | appreciation | defence | defence mechanism | defence reaction | defense | defense mechanism | defense reaction | idea | romanticisation | romanticization | sentimentalisation | sentimentalization | thought Idealization In Webster's Dictionary \I*de`al*i*za"tion\, n.
1. The act or process of idealizing.
2. (Fine Arts) The representation of natural objects, scenes,
etc., in such a way as to show their most important
characteristics; the study of the ideal.
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