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idealization
has definitions from the fields of psychoanalysis,psychiatry
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[ noun ] a portrayal of something as ideal
Synonyms Examples "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come , however , until after the Civil_War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way_of_life which had been destroyed . Related terms |
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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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