idealisation

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Meaning

a portrayal of something as ideal

something that exists only as an idea

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

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the idealization of rural life was very misleading Source: Internet

They argue that the paradigmatic case of Ernest Renan is an idealisation and it should be interpreted within the German tradition and not in opposition to it. Source: Internet

There is no more radical cure than Thucydides for the lamentably rose-coloured idealisation of the Greeks.. Source: Internet

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