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IDEALISATION
idealization, idealisation, glorification
(noun) a portrayal of something as ideal; “the idealization of rural life was very misleading”
idealization, idealisation
(noun) something that exists only as an idea
idealization, idealisation
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
idealisation (countable and uncountable, plural idealisations)
Alternative spelling of idealization
Source: Wiktionary
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BODILY
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
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