idealization
noun
1 idealization
A portrayal of something as ideal:
— The idealization of rural life was very misleading.
synonyms: glorification, idealisation.
Polish: lakiernictwo, brązownictwo, gloryfikacja, apoteoza, idealizacja
2 idealization
psychiatry A defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad.
synonym: idealisation.
Polish: idealizacja
3 idealization
Something that exists only as an idea.
synonym: idealisation.
Moby thesaurus: Prospero, 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 ... show more.
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