Idealisation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  idealisation \idealisation\ n.
     1. Same as {idealization}.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  idealisation
       n 1: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you
            are ambivalent about into two representations--one good
            and one bad [syn: {idealization}]
       2: something that exists only as an idea [syn: {idealization}]
       3: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of
          rural life was very misleading" [syn: {idealization}, {glorification}]