Associations to the word «Idealisation»

Wiktionary

IDEALISATION, noun. Alternative spelling of idealization

Dictionary definition

IDEALISATION, noun. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad.
IDEALISATION, noun. Something that exists only as an idea.
IDEALISATION, noun. A portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading".

Wise words

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad