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noun

Idealization n.

The act or process of idealizing.

(Fine Arts) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations one good and one bad.

Something that exists only as an idea.

A protrayal of something as ideal.

Synonyms: glorification.

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Etymology of 'Idealization'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Idealization" Quotes from Famous Books

... The face is very grand, very Webster stern and awful, because he is in the act of meeting a great crisis, and yet with the warmth of a great heart glowing through it. Happy is Webster to have been so truly and adequately sculptured; happy the sculptor in such a subject, which no idealization of a demigod could have supplied him with. Perhaps the statue at the bottom of the sea will be cast up in some future age, when the present race of man is forgotten, and if so, that far posterity will look up to us as a grander race than we find ourselves ...

— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... achievements were accomplished by Cooper. The first was the idealization of the white hunter whom he had described in "The Pioneers." No one can read the two novels in succession without seeing at once how much Leather-Stocking has gained in dignity. In thought and feeling and ...

— James Fenimore Cooper - American Men of Letters • Thomas R. Lounsbury

... before the thing depicted. For them the letter of the law killeth, but the spirit giveth life. This of course raises issue with the naturalistic school—a school which believes in rendering Nature as she is, without rearrangement, addition, substraction or idealization; a school presuming the artist to be a copyist, and founded not on the principles of design, but the ...

— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore

... being as much of a farmer, and as extensive a farmer, as himself, her probable whereabouts was out-of-doors at this time of the year. This, and the other oversights Boldwood was guilty of, were natural to the mood, and still more natural to the circumstances. The great aids to idealization in love were present here: occasional observation of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her—visual familiarity, oral strangeness. The smaller human elements were kept out of sight; the pettinesses that enter ...

— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... levels on which this idealization plays its tricks upon our fancy. The Greek, who had studied profoundly what may be called the machinery of art, made use even of mechanical contrivances to delude the imagination of the spectator, and to entice him away from the associations of everyday life. The cothurnus lifted the actor to heroic ...

— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell

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