Associations to the word «Idealization»

Wiktionary

IDEALIZATION, noun. The act or process of idealizing.
IDEALIZATION, noun. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats