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Idealized

Idealize \I*de"al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Idealized; p. pr. & vb. n. Idealizing.]

  1. To make ideal; to consider as ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life. [WordNet sense 1]

  2. (Fine Arts) To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.

  3. to form ideals. [WordNet sense 2]

Wiktionary
idealized
  1. 1 (context US English) regard as ideal. 2 (context US English) consider as an ideal form of something. 3 (alternative spelling of idealised English) alt. 1 (context US English) regard as ideal. 2 (context US English) consider as an ideal form of something. 3 (alternative spelling of idealised English) v

  2. 1 (context US English) (en-past of: idealize) 2 (alternative spelling of idealised English)

WordNet
idealized

adj. exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence [syn: idealised]

Usage examples of "idealized".

He had come to realize just how clean, perfect, idealized, precise were the facts and figures, maps, diagrams, and images that leapt up from the datastore.

Caliban found the differences between idealized definitions and real-world imperfections deeply disturbing.

The world he could see and touch seemed, somehow, less real than the idealized, hygienic facts and images stored deep inside his brain.

We can extract the identical concepts from any of the standard mathematically idealized and generalized moral social codes used by sociological modelers.

Turning again toward results produced by mathematical modeling, it can be shown that the Three Laws are equivalent to a very good first-order approximation of idealized moral human behavior.

To answer my own question, then, the Three Laws are intended to provide a workable simulation of an idealized moral code, modified to ensure the docility and subservience of robots.

If there was one thing he had learned thus far, it was that the idealized rules and the real-life world were rarely in perfect coordination with each other.

We're told that those models were based on an idealized density somewhat higher than that actually reported by observation, and (mumble-mumble, shuffle-shuffle) it's not really too far off when you allow for the uncertainties.

Whereas before his ideas had been opposed on the grounds of space being a mathematically idealized insulator, now the criticism was that he couldn't be right because the space he described was assumed to be a perfect conductor.

But no citation ever acknowledges Velikovsky as the first whose ideas had departed from the idealized, endlessly repeating Laplacian machine.

I would have liked finding out what an idealized version of me looked like.

Their faces—their real, everyday faces, not the idealized images they bore in the realms of virtuous reality—were pale and haggard, as yours would be, as mine surely was, after such a narrow escape.

Back in the Nine Beyonds, I'd idealized Judy into an image I'd cherish all my life, while she'd seen me just as I am.

It was the idealized form that Johnson, as a teen, had fanta­sized she looked like.

She did, however, have an idealized vision of someone in her mind, someone who represented love, power, all the things of greatness, a sort of godlike figure whom she seemed to worship in some mysti­cal, quasi-religious way.