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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | idealize |
| Type of | view, consider, reckon, regard, see |
| Has types | glamorize, romanticise, romanticize, deify, glamourise |
| Derivation | ideal, idealisation |
Examples of idealise
idealise
The daily press publishes vice, no doubt, but it does not idealise or palliate.
From the guardian.co.uk
Refusing either to flatter or idealise, she worked with complete integrity.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Under such circumstances, it is easy to be nostalgic and idealise the past.
From the guardian.co.uk
I don't idealise the Guardian but I do tend to come to it first for information and ideas.
From the guardian.co.uk
There's no attempt to idealise rural life of a century ago.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
Critics suggest that we idealise the situation when we think of therapy only as a helping relation.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Terrible as these stories are, Amos's focus on the non-Shia victims of the invasion leads her to idealise the Saddam era.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Couples should understand the difference between fantasy and reality and not idealise romance by what they see on TV.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It would be a mistake to idealise the partnerships.
From the economist.com
- Idealize: consider or render as ideal; "She idealized her husband after his death"
- (idealisation) idealization: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- (Idealised) For the term as it is used in sociology, see idealization (sociology).
- Alternative spelling of idealize
- (Idealisation) (Last edited: Wednesday, 7 July 2010, 02:55 PM)
