NOUN
- something that exists only as an idea
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a portrayal of something as ideal
the idealization of rural life was very misleading - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
How To Use idealization In A Sentence
- Were the nineteenth century's idealization of family life and the growth of gentlemen's clubs in some way linked? The Times Literary Supplement
- The most widespread of these revived views is euhemerism — the doctrine of Euhemerus that the gods are simply idealizations of famous mortals — and the most influential euhemerist treatise of the period is A. Banier's La Mythologie et les fables ex - pliquées par l'histoire (1711; revised 1715, and exten - sively, 1738-40). Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Chasseguet-Smirgel discusses the idealization of pregenital sexuality as a hallmark of the perversions.
- Philosophical debates over idealization have focused on two general kinds of idealizations: so-called Aristotelian and Galilean idealizations. Models in Science
- Another is an idealization of the recusant gentry and their houses. The Times Literary Supplement
- Her idealization of her mate results in a one-sided relationship that doesn't seem to function on any mature, adult level.
- It becomes nothing more than yet another idealisation of a brutal, unpleasant Truth.
- Idealizations of village and town life from bygone days are common in the speeches of politicians.
- The Empire never ended because the Paraclete's exile is enforced not just by the Emperor but by his subjugated people, Gnostic or Paulian, who valorise the divorce of flesh and soul, the demonisation of the former in Dionysian Satan and the idealisation of the latter in Apollonian Christ. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE
- The Italian Renaissance's idealisation of classical culture had entered Britain during the 16th century; by the early 18th century, not to be a classicist was almost an act of blasphemy. British architecture: Georgian
