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idealization

NOUN
  1. something that exists only as an idea
  2. a portrayal of something as ideal
    the idealization of rural life was very misleading
  3. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

How To Use idealization In A Sentence

  • I find the fetishization of hairlessness strange… I wonder sometimes if it is not the result of the idealization of adolescent body types. The Most Hairiest Man in the World? » Sociological Images
  • Other aspects include dealing with derealization / dissociation, idealization/devaluation, harsh self-evaluation, and anxiety and depression.
  • After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
  • I was going to say... that sounds like some kind of idealisation if I ever saw it :P Archive Monday: Influx
  • Nor can he equal the sublime lyrism of his model; but he is little inferior in poetic conception, in dignified idealization, and in picturesque imagery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
  • As idealizations, they appear to be predicated on normative but contradictory and ultimately irreconcilable understandings of excellence.
  • the idealization of rural life was very misleading
  • The image of battle as a formally arranged duel is an extreme idealization.
  • However, I am also critical of unbalanced, inflammatory and obsessive idealisation of Israel, of the kind that is rife in the polities of various Western countries including Australia and the United States. Global Voices in English » Australians divided by Durban II boycott
  • Within the legal container of marriage, the idealization and illusion so characteristic or the in-love state can take a nasty knock.
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