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    IDEALIZATION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A portrayal of something as idealplay

    Example:

    the idealization of rural life was very misleading

    Synonyms:

    glorification; idealisation; idealization

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("idealization" is a kind of...):

    admiration; appreciation (a favorable judgment)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "idealization"):

    romanticisation; romanticization; sentimentalisation; sentimentalization (the act of indulging in sentiment)

    Derivation:

    idealize (consider or render as ideal)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Something that exists only as an ideaplay

    Synonyms:

    idealisation; idealization

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("idealization" is a kind of...):

    idea; thought (the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one badplay

    Synonyms:

    idealisation; idealization

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural processes

    Hypernyms ("idealization" is a kind of...):

    defence; defence mechanism; defence reaction; defense; defense mechanism; defense reaction ((psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires)

    Domain category:

    psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)

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