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