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idealization

[ ahy-dee-uh-luh-zey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the act or process of idealizing something.
Psychoanalysis. a mental mechanism, operating consciously or unconsciously, in which one person overestimates an admired attribute of another.

idealization

/ aɪˌdɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən /

the representation of something as ideal
a conception of something that dwells on its advantages and ignores its deficiencies
a general theoretical account of natural phenomena that ignores features that are difficult to accommodate within a theory

First recorded in 1790–1800; idealize + -ation

But there is a messy middle territory between demonization and idealization.

This de-idealization came about, in part, Hall argues, because artists were now wealthy and powerful enough to mock themselves.

The irony is that the idealization of Earp as a good guy with a gun, an unswerving servant of law and order, is a myth.

Admittedly, a lot of undeserved cultural authority will have to erode before this idealization can materialize.

The force of such idealization helped to carry forward the human race to a new milestone on the path of progress.

Such views and sentiments are incompatible with the idealization of a benevolent despotism.

The two genuine modes of idealization, the subjective and the objective, are not always easy to be reconciled.

I felt that the necessary idealization could only be attained by adopting the clothing of the past.

After the Antonines, the events are related with simple truth to nature, as a mere chronicle, without any idealization at all.

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