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idealisation

 
Noun idealisation has 3 senses
  1. idealization, idealisation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
    --1 is a kind of defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
    Derived form: verb idealise1
  2. idealization, idealisation - something that exists only as an idea
    --2 is a kind of idea, thought
  3. idealization, idealisation, glorification - a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
    --3 is a kind of admiration, appreciation
    --3 has particulars:
     sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, romanticization, romanticisation
idea ideal-body ideal ideal food ideal gas ideal marriage ideal match ideal solid idealisation idealise idealised idealism idealist idealist s idealisti idealistic idealistically

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