(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.
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