idealisation

1. She writes about women's idealisation of men, touching briefly on the topic of women's fantasy life.
   她写女人心目中理想化的男人，其中简单涉及了女人所幻想的生活的话题。
2. The idealisation of silence remained strong in American culture into the 20th century: think of the laconic heroes of Western films, or of Hemingway's novels.
   在美国文化进入20世纪后，其中的理想化的沉默仍然很强烈：想想西部片里头（讲起话来）言简意赅的英雄或者海明威的小说。
3. And this time, there is no idealisation of the enemy outside of a truly lunatic fringe.
   而且，这一次，除了认为敌方是真正的极端主义国家外，没有对他们进行任何理想化。
4. Mahatma Gandhi's idealisation of rural simplicity set the tone for post-independence policies that concentrated on heavy-industry import substitution but was biased against creating labour-intensive manufacturing jobs.
   圣雄甘地（MahatmaGandhi）对淳朴田园生活的理想化，为印度独立后的政策定下了基调：注重重工业的进口替代，而对创造劳动力密集型制造业的工作机会持有偏见。

noun

1. a portrayal of something as ideal
   1. the idealization of rural life was very misleading

   Synonym:    idealizationglorification

2. something that exists only as an idea

   Synonym:    idealization

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

   Synonym:    idealization