'Idealization' definitions:
Definition of 'idealization'
From: WordNet
noun
A portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" [syn: idealization, idealisation, glorification]
noun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad [syn: idealization, idealisation]
noun
Something that exists only as an idea [syn: idealization, idealisation]
Definition of 'Idealization'
From: GCIDE
- Idealization \I*de`al*i*za"tion\, n.
- 1. The act or process of idealizing. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Fine Arts) 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]
- 3. A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad. [WordNet sense 1] [WordNet 1.5]
- 4. something that exists only as an idea. [WordNet sense 2] [WordNet 1.5]
- 5. a protrayal of something as ideal. [WordNet sense 3]
- Syn: glorification. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'idealization'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Prospero,
- 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