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Definition of Idealisation

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

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

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

Definition of Idealisation

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of idealization) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealisation

ide idea idea future idea hamster idea of reference idea virus ideaed ideal ideal-seeking behavior ideal alveolar gas

ideal gas ideal gas law ideal solid idealess idealessness idealisation (current term) idealisations idealise idealised idealises

idealising idealism idealisms idealist idealistic idealistically idealists idealities ideality idealizable

Literary usage of Idealisation

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

1. A Handbook of Psychology by John Clark Murray (1885)
"THE term, idealisation, is here employed to- designate the latest and fullest ... In the evolution of these activities the simpler forms of idealisation are ..."

2. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"The Effect of idealisation on our Actual Judgments and Judgmental Dispositions. (a) idealisation as Imaginative Construction. This intrinsic valuation is ..."

3. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"To complete this theory of the Positivist calendar, I must indicate the ultimate form of the idealisation of the several days of the week. ..."

4. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"writing about a fulfilled ideal, are to be taken as telling ' what really happened, and is no idealisation.' But to St. Paul lx,th Adam and Christ are in ..."

5. The Human Intellect: With an Introduction Upon Psychology and the Soul by Noah Porter (1869)
"The idealisation of the relations of »pace and time in the creations of art, and the constructions of mathematical science. It constructs . . J § 353. ..."

6. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"Respect for the Devil—Primitive atheism—idealisation—Birth of new gods—New gods ... idealisation ..."

7. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"Respect for the Devil—Primitive atheism—idealisation—Birth of new gods—New gods ... idealisation ..."

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