idealization

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: i=de=al=i=za=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

idealization, n. 

•  The act or process of idealizing.  [1913 Webster]
•  The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.  [1913 Webster]
•  A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  something that exists only as an idea.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a protrayal of something as ideal.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

idealization

Prospero, airiness, appearance, autism, autistic thinking, delusiveness, dematerialization, dereism, dereistic thinking, disembodiment, dreamery, etherealization, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, flight of fancy, ideal, idealism, ideality, illusionism, illusionist, illusiveness, imaginative exercise, immateriality, immaterialization, impracticality, magic, magic act, magic show, magician, play of fancy, prestidigitation, quixotism, quixotry, romance, romanticism, seeming, semblance, show, simulacrum, sleight of hand, sorcerer, sorcery, specious appearance, spiritualization, unactuality, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialization, utopianism, visionariness, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking