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noun

Idealization n.

The act or process of idealizing.

(Fine Arts) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations one good and one bad.

Something that exists only as an idea.

A protrayal of something as ideal.

Synonyms: glorification.

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Etymology of 'Idealization'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... German puts himself in the attitude of thinking of his women as sluttish and accordingly acting in that scale toward them. There is no great gilding to these fancies. Girls are small inspiration to him compared with what the petites dames are to the amorous Frenchman. Idealization of love in its ultimate fulfillment, the poetizing of the ardent flesh crying out for its craving mate, are characteristically ignored by the Teuton who seeks the baser gratifications without illuminations of loveliness or ...

— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

... observation and faith. But the sort of way in which some would improve the world now, if they might, is not so very far in advance of this would-be glorification of Nature. The barest heath and sky have lovelinesses infinitely beyond the most gorgeous of such phantasmagoric idealization of her beauties; and the most wretched condition of humanity struggling for existence contains elements of worth and future development inappreciable by the philanthropy that would elevate them ...

— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald

... educated for his life work, and his idealization of these experiences is what entitles him to a sure place in ...

— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck

... accomplished far more than this; but it is important in tracing the development of the English School of painting to remember that its origin was not in the idealization of religious sentiment, but in the realization of the human features. From the time of the first great genius to that of the next, exactly a century later, there is hardly a portrait in existence that is valued for anything but its historic or personal interest. ...

— Six Centuries of Painting • Randall Davies

... people to-day, perhaps, regard art as the close and realistic copy of Nature; photography has at least scotched, if not slain, that error; but many people still regard art as a sort of improvement on or an "idealization" of Nature. It is the part of the artist, they think, to take suggestions and materials from Nature, and from these to build up, as it were, a revised version. It is, perhaps, only by studying those rudimentary forms of art that are closely akin to ritual that we come to ...

— Ancient Art and Ritual • Jane Ellen Harrison

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