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What (who) is idealize - definition
idealize
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Idealize
or idealise
¦ verb [often as adjective idealized] regard or represent as perfect or better than in reality.
Derivatives
idealization noun
idealizer noun
Idealize
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Idealize
·vi To form ideals.
III. Idealize ·vt To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.
idealize
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Idealize
(idealizes, idealizing, idealized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'idealise'
If you idealize something or someone, you think of them, or represent them to other people, as being perfect or much better than they really are.
People idealize the past...
VERB: V n
• idealized
...an idealised image of how a parent should be...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
• idealization (idealizations)
...Marie's idealisation of her dead husband.
N-VAR
Examples of use of idealize
1. "Women want to idealize about a sexy woman. . . . She‘s a lioness. . . . Women want to be her.
2. Meanwhile Musharraf has kept the fundamentalists at home on side by allying himself with Pakistan‘s largest Islamic fundamentalist parties, who idealize bin Laden and rule the two provinces bordering Afghanistan.
3. But the game‘s purists still idealize its beginnings, when kids shoveled the snow from the rivers and ponds on the edge of town and skated for hours in their wool caps, through wisps of their condensed breath.
4. And it went on to the ability of the Jew in Spain, and Morocco and Poland, to feel a connection to a land he‘s never been to." The Jews gave humanity "a big story," that takes in Masada and the Holocaust and Entebbe, and humanity has used that story either to "idealize or demonize" the Jews, "which I see as the two sides of dehumanization.