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i⋅de⋅al⋅i⋅za⋅tion

  [ahy-dee-uh-luh-zey-shuhn]
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–noun
1. the act or process of idealizing something.
2. Psychoanalysis. a mental mechanism, operating consciously or unconsciously, in which one person overestimates an admired attribute of another.
Origin:
1790–1800; idealize + -ation
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i·de·al·ize   (ī-dē'ə-līz')   
v.   i·de·al·ized, i·de·al·iz·ing, i·de·al·iz·es

v.   tr.

  1. To regard as ideal.

  2. To make or envision as ideal.

v.   intr.

  1. To render something as an ideal.

  2. To conceive ideals or an ideal.

i·de'al·i·za'tion (-ə-lĭ-zā'shən) n., i·de'al·iz'er n.
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