Lexic.us

Definition of Idealization

1. Noun. A portrayal of something as ideal. "The idealization of rural life was very misleading"

2. Noun. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad.

3. Noun. Something that exists only as an idea.

Definition of Idealization

1. n. The act or process of idealizing.

Definition of Idealization

1. Noun. The act or process of idealizing. ¹

2. Noun. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Idealization

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealization

idealisation idealisations idealise idealised idealises idealising idealism idealisms idealist idealistic

idealistically idealists idealities ideality idealizable idealization idealizations idealize idealized idealizer

idealizers idealizes idealizing idealless ideally idealogic idealogical idealogies idealogue idealogues

Literary usage of Idealization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"In this tendency to symbolic completeness, hi this general idealization, the motive of utility also comes in, both through association and more ..."

2. Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation by Lucius Moody Bristol (1915)
"Idealization as a factor in social progress has three elements: (1) the intellectual by which ... XIV; also Comte, A General View, pp. 387 f. Idealization ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"of historic idealization stripped away. Criticism objected to Mr. Herndon's book that it would go nigh to prevent the process of idealization altogether as ..."

4. A Text-book for the Study of Poetry by Francis M. Connell (1913)
"Idealization. — (1) Bearing in mind what has been said of truth, we are in a position to understand what we may regard as the characteristic of poetic work, ..."

5. The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier (1897)
"The desired effect can be obtained only by forcing features; hence its idealization. But the best means of accentuating certain traits is to efface others; ..."

6. Psychology by John Dewey (1890)
"the connection of the feeling of beauty with idealization; ... Idealization and the ^Esthetic Feeling.—Every content of consciousness may have an element of ..."

7. Ultimate Demcracy and Its Making by Newell LeRoy Sims (1917)
"The Idealization of Common Labor The idealization of common labor is a significant characteristic of this age. From time immemorial there have been two ways ..."

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