Hypertext Webster Gateway: "idealisation"

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idealisation
n 1: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you
are ambivalent about into two representations--one good
and one bad [syn: {idealization}]
2: something that exists only as an idea [syn: {idealization}]
3: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of
rural life was very misleading" [syn: {idealization}, {glorification}]


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