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n. The act or process of idealizing.

n. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

n. The act or process of idealizing.

n. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.

n. A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad.

n. something that exists only as an idea.

n. a protrayal of something as ideal.

n. The act of forming in idea or in thought; the act of making ideal. Also spelled idealisation.

n. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

n. a portrayal of something as ideal

n. something that exists only as an idea

"Laws almost always involve approximation and idealization Sometimes the idealization is so great that a law is quite inaccurate over parts of the range of phenomena it is supposed to cover (as is the law for the simple pendulum or the general gas laws)."

defense    defence reaction    defence mechanism    defense mechanism    defence    defense reaction    idea    thought   

glorification   

dallying    frequentation    pursing    straighten    winding-up    outness    primitiveness    enslaver    expropriation    southerner