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• n  a portrayal of something as ideal
  the idealization of rural life was very misleading
• n  (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
• n  something that exists only as an idea

• The confession: "To destroy the present for the sake of the future is not the right means to promote idealization of national life.
• We're talking about the idealization of a single mom.
• While most American treatment providers blame perfection-seeking parents and the media's idealization of hollow-cheeked actresses for eating disorders (among other dysfunctional .

• idealisation
• glorification

Quotes

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• Jack Coleman in New York Daily News
  Generally, on television, parents tend to be a lot more patient and a lot more interested in every utterance their darling child makes than in real life,said Coleman, who turned 49 on Wednesday. "So there's a kind of idealization of my...
• Donald Byrd in Chicago Tribune
  Byrd describes the new piece as having to do with "romance and idealization," while he plans a cast of one woman and eight men.
• Matthew Barney in Bloomberg
  Barney describes that as "the internalization and idealization of the paternal phallus."