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Idealisation   Listen
noun
idealisation  n.  
1.
Same as idealization.





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"Idealisation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Murillo's obvious faults, as you walk through the museum at Seville all Andalusia appears before you. Nothing could be more characteristic than the religious feeling of the many pictures, than the exuberant fancy and utter lack of idealisation: in the contrast between a Holy Family by Murillo and one by Perugino is all the difference between Spain and Italy. Murillo's Virgin is a peasant girl such as you may see in any village round Seville on a feast-day; her emotions ...
— The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia • William Somerset Maugham


Words linked to "Idealisation" :   psychological medicine, admiration, glorification, idealise, defense mechanism, defense reaction, defense, romanticization, defence, psychopathology, sentimentalization, appreciation, thought, defence reaction


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