idealization

Nouns

  • (n) a portrayal of something as ideal
    • the idealization of rural life was very misleading
    glorification, idealisation,
  • (n) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad idealisation,
  • (n) something that exists only as an idea idealisation,

Synonyms

glorification idealisation

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