[syn: idealization, idealisation, glorification]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
idealisation \idealisation\ n.
1. Same as idealization.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
idealisation
n 1: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you
are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and
one bad [syn: idealization, idealisation]
2: something that exists only as an idea [syn: idealization,
idealisation]
3: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural
life was very misleading" [syn: idealization,
idealisation, glorification]