(~s, idealizing, ~d)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'idealise'
If you ~ something or someone, you think of them, or represent them to other people, as being perfect or much better than they really are.
People ~ the past...
VERB: V n
~d
...an idealised image of how a parent should be...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
idealization (idealizations)
...Marie’s idealisation of her dead husband.
N-VAR