noun
- A portrayal of something as ideal.
- usage: "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
- synonyms: idealisation, glorification
- Psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations-one good and one bad.
- synonyms: idealisation
- Something that exists only as an idea.
- synonyms: idealisation
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