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idealisation   (TTS Sound)

The noun idealisation has 3 senses

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


• idealization, idealisation -- (something that exists only as an idea)


• idealization, idealisation, glorification -- (a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading")