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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21 April 2025

ENCYCLOPEDIA

(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty


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Coffee Trivia

According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.

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