Word Study
idealization
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun idealization has 3 senses
- idealization(n = noun.act) glorification, idealisation - a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" is a kind of admiration, appreciation
- idealization(n = noun.process) idealisation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad; Array is a kind of defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction
- idealization(n = noun.cognition) idealisation - something that exists only as an idea; Array is a kind of idea, thought
has particulars: romanticisation, romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization
Derived form verb idealize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
idealization, n.
- The act or process of idealizing. [1913 Webster]
- The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal. [1913 Webster]
- A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad. [WordNet 1.5]
- something that exists only as an idea. [WordNet 1.5]
- a protrayal of something as ideal. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
idealization
Prospero, 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, 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, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking
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