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Meanings of idealization in English

Portuguese
idealização
Catalan
idealització
Spanish
idealización

A portrayal of something as ideal.

        idealização
        Usage of idealization in English
        1
        It made his love for Nedda more actual, less of an idealization.
        The Freelands
        2
        Possibly the idealization of the best Indian traits will serve them better.
        The Minister and the Boy: A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Bo...
        3
        Nor was it any mere idealization of her worn and crumpled self.
        The Human Chord
        4
        She'd talked about the idealization and worship of the woman from afar.
        Halo
        5
        By the perfidy of man the vision was shattered and the idealization wrecked.
        Sketches of the Covenanters
        6
        The idealization of the sensuous, music brings about by negating space.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        7
        As for Shakespeare, here follows a very characteristic idealization of his extant portrait:
        The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
        8
        The lovers had been constantly exercising, respecting each other, their faculty of idealization.
        Adèle Dubois / A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Bru...
        9
        It was abject self-idolatry, thought Balder, masquerading as a lofty form of idealization.
        Idolatry: A Romance
        10
        To sensible, matter-of-fact girls, nothing is more absurd than your idealization of us.
        An Original Belle
        11
        This idealization of changelessness was the common property of all that by gone world.
        Christianity and Progress
        12
        Paul de Lavardens had marvellous powers of enthusiasm and idealization.
        L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 2
        13
        Apart from anything more distinctly spiritual, where do we get the faculty of idealization?
        No Refuge but in Truth
        14
        It is evident, however, that this exaggeration is even more unscientific than Rousseau's idealization.
        Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
        15
        But in this idealization he never robs it altogether of the flavor of the soil.
        Chopin : the Man and His Music
        16
        An idealization, if you ask me, and rather amateurish.
        Arcadia falls
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        Portuguese
        idealização
        Idealization through the time
        Idealization across language varieties
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