idealization

Meanings

Plural: idealizations

Noun

• 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
• something that exists only as an idea
• The act or process of idealizing.
• The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

Synonyms

glorification, idealisation