idealization
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Clare, too, receives frequent rhapsodic praise, but even accounting for the narrator’s grief-induced idealization, their relationship strikes me as too perfect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
This is a young man’s idealization of a dying old man glorifying his final breaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
However, linguists often point out that the concept of a standard accent is better understood as an idealization rather than a reality.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2023
“There was an idealization and simplification of the problem that started in the economics literature,” said Robert Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
And this worship of ideals is a process of idealization....
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
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