Idealisation
nounid
74921·updated May 18, 2026verified
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
polysemous
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Variants
- synonym
- glorificationidealization
- plural
- Idealisations
- possessive
- Idealisation's
- pluralpossessive
- Idealisations'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a portrayal of something as ideal
- §2
- something that exists only as an idea
- §3
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
- §1 · legacy_primary
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one badDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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