Idealisation - Definition
idealisation
n 1: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you
are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and
one bad [syn: idealization, idealisation]
2: something that exists only as an idea [syn: idealization,
idealisation]
3: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural
life was very misleading" [syn: idealization,
idealisation, glorification]