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