idealization – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
idealization (Amer.)
n.
process of making something ideal; viewing of someone or something as ideal, romanticizing (also idealisation)
Idealization
Idealization is the process by which
scientific models assume facts about the phenomenon being modeled that are strictly false but make models easier to understand or solve. That is, it is determined whether the phenomenon approximates an "ideal case," then the model is applied to make a prediction based on that ideal case.
idealization
Noun
1. a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
(synonym) idealisation, glorification
(hypernym) admiration, appreciation
(hyponym) sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, romanticization, romanticisation
(derivation) idealize, idealise
2. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
(synonym) idealisation
(hypernym) defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
(classification) psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
3. something that exists only as an idea
(synonym) idealisation
(hypernym) idea, thought
Idealization
(n.)
The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
(n.)
The act or process of idealizing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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idealization
Synonyms and related words:
Prospero, airiness, appearance, autism, autistic thinking, delusiveness, dematerialization, dereism, dereistic thinking, disembodiment, dreamery, etherealization, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, flight of fancy, ideal, idealism, ideality, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, imaginative exercise, immateriality, immaterialization, impracticality, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, play of fancy, prestidigitation, quixotism, quixotry, romance, romanticism, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, spiritualization, unactuality, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialization, utopianism, visionariness, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking
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