English to English noun
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a portrayal of something as ideal | | Example: the idealization of rural life was very misleading
source: wordnet30
2 |
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad | | source: wordnet30
3 |
something that exists only as an idea | | source: wordnet30
4 |
The act or process of idealizing. | | source: webster1913
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