Associations to the word «Idealization»
Adjective
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
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.