idealization

idealization has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act or process of idealizing.
• n.. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
• n.. a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
• n.. something that exists only as an idea
• n.. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad