Usually means: Simplified, perfect representation of reality.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word idealization:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. idealization: Merriam-Webster
  2. idealization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idealization: Collins English Dictionary
  4. idealization: Vocabulary.com
  5. Idealization, idealization: Wordnik
  6. idealization: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. idealization: Wiktionary
  8. idealization: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Idealization, idealization: Dictionary.com
  10. Idealization (science philosophy): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Idealization: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. idealization: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. idealization: Rhymezone
  14. Idealization: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. idealization: FreeDictionary.org
  16. idealization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. idealization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idealization: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idealization: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idealization: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. idealization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. idealization: Medical dictionary

(Note: See idealize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (idealization)

noun:  The act or process of idealizing.
noun:  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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