- idealization, idealisation - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
--1 is a kind of defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
Derived form: verb idealise1 - idealization, idealisation - something that exists only as an idea
--2 is a kind of idea, thought
- idealization, idealisation, glorification - a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
--3 is a kind of admiration, appreciation
--3 has particulars:sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, romanticization, romanticisation