IDEALIZATION

Definition:

1. [noun] a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
   Synonyms: idealisation, glorification
   
   
2. [noun] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations
   Synonyms: idealisation
   
   
3. [noun] something that exists only as an idea
   Synonyms: idealisation
   
   

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Related Words:

• sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, romanticization, romanticisation