IDEALIZATION


Meaning of IDEALIZATION in English

/uy dee'euh leuh zay"sheuhn/ , n.

1. the act or process of idealizing something.

2. Psychoanal. a mental mechanism, operating consciously or unconsciously, in which one person overestimates an admired attribute of another.

[ 1790-1800; IDEALIZE + -ATION ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .