WordNet: idealisation, idealization

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

• domain: topic psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology

• hypernym defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction

idealisation

• (englanti) idealise (derivationally related)
• (suomi) idealisaatio (synonyymi)

idealization

• (suomi) idealisaatio (synonyymi)