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Idealisation

noun
1.
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad.  Synonym: idealization.
2.
Something that exists only as an idea.  Synonym: idealization.
3.
A portrayal of something as ideal.  Synonyms: glorification, idealization.





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"Idealisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... is remarkable how accurately all this corresponds to the Dark Tower of "Childe Rowland," allowing for a little idealisation on the part of the narrator. We have the long dark passage leading into the well-lit central chamber, and all enclosed in a green hill or mound. It is of course curious to contrast Mr. Batten's frontispiece with the central chamber of the How, but the essential features ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)
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... my class. I thought of women as pretty things and beautiful things, pretty rather than beautiful, attractive and at times disconcertingly attractive, often bright and witty, but, because of the vast reservations that hid them from me, wanting, subtly and inevitably wanting, in understanding. My idealisation of Margaret had evaporated insensibly after our marriage. The shrine I had made for her in my private thoughts stood at last undisguisedly empty. But Isabel did not for a moment admit of either idealisation or interested contempt. She opened a new ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells
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Words linked to "Idealisation" :   glorification, defense mechanism, romanticization, defence, psychiatry, appreciation, thought, romanticisation, defence mechanism, admiration, idealise, psychological medicine, idea, sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, defense, idealization, defense reaction, defence reaction, psychopathology


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