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Entry 5 senses Webster, 1913

Idealization

· I·de·al·i·za·tion · IPA
01 n. The act or process of idealizing.
  1. 1.
    The act or process of idealizing.
  2. 2.
    The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.(Fine Arts)
  3. 3.
    A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad.
  4. 4.
    something that exists only as an idea.
  5. 5.
    a protrayal of something as ideal.