idealization Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

I*de`al*i*za"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The act or process of idealizing.
  2. (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.

Webster 1913