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Meanings of idealisation in English

Portuguese
idealização
Catalan
idealització
Spanish
idealización

A portrayal of something as ideal.

        idealização
        Usage of idealisation in English
        1
        His personal characteristics are too distinct and too human to make idealisation easy.
        Outspoken Essays
        2
        So, to Kohut, grandiosity and idealisation are positive childhood development mechanisms.
        The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology
        3
        The idealisation of film stars and athletes raises impossible expectations.
        The Guardian
        4
        But Isabel did not for a moment admit of either idealisation or interested contempt.
        The New Machiavelli
        5
        At his time of life idealisation is still not a difficult or a long process.
        The Great God Success: A Novel
        6
        Here are my notes of one specimen conversation, given without any dramatic nonsense or idealisation.
        The Chequers / Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set ...
        7
        She is impulsive, given to idealisation, and hopelessly illogical.
        Better Dead
        8
        In fact, the link between idealisation of ancient ruins and totalitarian rulers has a long history.
        BBC
        9
        From a false idealisation of humanitarianism, whilst Hindoos and Chinese are at all events more humane.
        We Philologists / Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume ...
        10
        It was a superstition, not a religion; it admitted neither of allegoric interpretation nor of poetical idealisation.
        The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th...
        11
        But his idealisation of earlier ages was that of the romantic student rather than the reactionary politician.
        Latin Literature
        12
        How strange now appeared the dreams of her childhood, the idealisation of the young and beautiful mother!
        Great Possessions
        13
        There is a subtle charm in the taste of tea which makes it irresistible and capable of idealisation.
        The Book of Tea
        14
        Both films are set in a version of the early 1960s that swings between idealisation and retrospective disapproval.
        The Irish Times
        15
        He also reminds us that Othello's tragic flaw is less jealousy than an excessive idealisation of his beloved.
        The Guardian
        16
        There is no idealisation at play.
        The Irish Times
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        Portuguese
        idealização
        Idealisation through the time