idealisation
has definitions from the fields of psychoanalysis,psychiatry
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[ noun ] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
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[ noun ] a portrayal of something as ideal
Synonyms Examples "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" Related terms |
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