idealization
Meaning
noun
- a portrayal of something as ideal
“the idealization of rural life was very misleading” - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- something that exists only as an idea
Synonyms for idealization
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