Hypertext Webster Gateway: "idealisation"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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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