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Overview of noun idealization

The noun idealization has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) idealization, idealisation, glorification

(a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading")

2. idealization, idealisation

((psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations

3. idealization, idealisation

(something that exists only as an idea) © 2001-2013, Demand Media, all rights reserved. The database is based on Word Net a lexical database for the English language. see disclaimer
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