idealization

idealize | American Dictionary

idealize
verb[ T ]
us/ɑɪˈdil·ɑɪz, -ˈdi·əˌlɑɪz/
to think of or represent someone or something as perfect:
Thoreau seemed to idealize the women close to him.

Examples of idealize

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He argues that such extremes did indeed exist, but only as ' idealized ' positions.
In particular, it will appear to do perfectly well without the idealizing assumption highlighted earlier in this section.
The other approach is reductionist, isolating the component structures of a deformed body in such a way that they can be idealized and modelled mathematically.
In the analysis performed based on the four-channel architecture, the system is idealized as the linear one.
Instead, their working boy heroes tend to be idealized.
They perceived change differently, seeing themselves as connected to, not separated from, a past that they idealized.
In either case, evaluation spans several levels of abstraction, from high-level functionality, to idealized behavior, to part count and cost.
It is idealized in the sense that it does not reflect the constant flux and everincreasing leakage between the two varieties.
The region boundaries relating to each geometry configuration are idealized using the outermost points of each cluster.
I do not mean to idealize this institution or to claim that the relationships between merchant and apprentice were always harmonious.
We also idealize the geometry by considering only two-dimensional situations.
To invent is not, then, "to make real"; nor is it to idealize.
Struggles to maintain the household were more tangible to rural communities than the fight for control of the state idealized by nationalist historians.
So, we consider idealized horizontally homogeneous incompressible fluids of infinite horizontal extent confined between two rigid horizontal boundaries.
Scientific theories are typically about idealized or abstract realms, which are uncovered in the process of developing and establishing the theories.
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