Usually means: Attributing perfection unrealistically to something.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word idealizing:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. idealizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. idealizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. idealizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. idealizing: Wordnik
  5. idealizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. idealizing: Wiktionary
  7. Idealizing, idealizing: Dictionary.com
  8. idealizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Idealizing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Idealizing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. idealizing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. idealizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idealizing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See idealize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (idealize)

verb:  (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
verb:  (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
verb:  (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.
▸ Also see idealize


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