idealisation

from 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}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
idealisation \idealisation\ n.
   1. Same as {idealization}.
      [WordNet 1.5]
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