Definition of Idealization

Noun: idealization I,dee-u-lu'zey-shun [N. Amer], I,dee-u-lI'zey-shun [Brit]

A portrayal of something as ideal
"the idealization of rural life was very misleading";
- idealisation [Brit], glorification
(psychiatry) a defence mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- idealisation [Brit]
Something that exists only as an idea
- idealisation [Brit]