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

2. (noun) idealization, idealisation
something that exists only as an idea

3. (noun) idealization, idealisation, glorification
a portrayal of something as ideal
"the idealization of rural life was very misleading"

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