idealization
IPA: aɪdˈiʌɫɪzˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or process of idealizing.
- The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
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Examples of "idealization" in Sentences
- Other labels for this kind of idealization include
- But this common kind of idealization, though it is very important and very precious, does not produce the great events in the life of mankind.
- In their works women artists combine many different elements, such as idealization, realism, humor, satire and irony, which bear witness to their desire to escape the world in which they found themselves.
- In a way that recalls the idealization of Jean Genet by the French existentialists, it was his own freedom from constraints, as much as his urge to break the shackles of others, that drew the Transcendentalists to him.
- Though a certain work of idealization is required to posit or conceive of an object as non-thinkable, nonclassical theory presses on to "an epistemological double-rupture" whereby the idealization is identified as such.
- Many genuine artists, who cannot be content with a mere inventory of material objects, seek to express the objects by what was once called "idealization," then "selection," and which tomorrow will again be called something different.
- I have seen facts which would be described as "idealization" if I told them in this place; and the very names of these men, hardly known outside a narrow circle of friends, will soon be forgotten when the friends, too, have passed away.
- Laws almost always involve approximation and idealization Sometimes the idealization is so great that a law is quite inaccurate over parts of the range of phenomena it is supposed to cover (as is the law for the simple pendulum or the general gas laws).
- All the materials with which his memory is crowded become classified, orderly, harmonious, and undergo that compulsory idealization which is the result of a childlike perception, that is to say, of a perception that is keen, magical by force of ingenuousness.