idealisation

1. 1.

   (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

   Synonymsidealization

   Broaderdefense mechanism

   psychiatry

2. 2.

   something that exists only as an idea

   Synonymsidealization

   Broaderidea
3. 3.

   a portrayal of something as ideal

   “the idealization of rural life was very misleading”

   Synonymsidealizationglorification

   Broaderadmiration

   Narrowersentimentalization

Other forms of idealisation

plural

idealisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about idealisation

What does idealisation mean?

idealisation means "(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in idealisation?

idealisation has 7 syllables: i-de-a-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for idealisation?

Close synonyms include idealization, idealization, idealization, glorification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is idealisation a common word?

idealisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.