Crossword clues for idealization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idealization \I*de`al*i*za"tion\, n.
The act or process of idealizing.
(Fine Arts) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad. [WordNet sense 1]
something that exists only as an idea. [WordNet sense 2]
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a protrayal of something as ideal. [WordNet sense 3]
Syn: glorification.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796; see idealize + -ation.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of idealize. 2 The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
WordNet
n. a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" [syn: idealisation, glorification]
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad [syn: idealisation]
something that exists only as an idea [syn: idealisation]
Wikipedia
Idealization is the process by which scientific models assume facts about the phenomenon being modeled that are strictly false but make models easier to understand or solve. That is, it is determined whether the phenomenon approximates an "ideal case," then the model is applied to make a prediction based on that ideal case.
If an approximation is accurate, the model will have high predictive accuracy; for example, it is not usually necessary to account for air resistance when determining the acceleration of a falling bowling ball, and doing so would be more complicated. In this case, air resistance is idealized to be zero. Although this is not strictly true, it is a good approximation because its effect is negligible compared to that of gravity.
Idealizations may allow predictions to be made when none otherwise could be. For example, the approximation of air resistance as zero was the only option before the formulation of Stokes' law allowed the calculation of drag forces. Many debates surrounding the usefulness of a particular model are about the appropriateness of different idealizations.
Usage examples of "idealization".
Idealization of love in its ultimate fulfillment, the poetizing of the ardent flesh crying out for its craving mate, are characteristically ignored by the Teuton who seeks the baser gratifications without illuminations of loveliness or hesitations of delicate refinement.
To Mallard she had spoken of her fellow-boarders in quite a different way, with merry though kindly criticism, or in the strain of generous idealization which so often marked her language.
I do not mean to say that the people in California knew personally Ramona and Alessandro, or altogether believe in them, but that in their idealizations they recognize a verity and the ultimate truth of human nature, while in the scenery, in the fading sentiment of the old Spanish life, and the romance and faith of the Missions, the author has done for the region very much what Scott did for the Highlands.
Oh, they're close, but the sleek centaurs of Dillia, for example, seem almost like streamlined, stylized idealizations of their coarse, muscular, and far more brutishly equine ancestors.
My preconceived notions of Dutiful, my possessive idealizations of what my natural son would be like, stood between me and the frail threads of the Skill-link I sought to untangle.
The picture of science that I carried into those early stories reflected the idealization of intellectual purity that textbooks and popularizers portray.
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly,—.
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly,—the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.