0 present participle of idealize
1 to think of or represent someone or something as better than that person or thing really is:
On the other hand, she refuses to stylize him in an idealizing fashion.
Idealizing the positive defensive and protective aspects of warriorhood may also involve a denial of the destructive, senseless realities of modern warfare.
In particular, it will appear to do perfectly well without the idealizing assumption highlighted earlier in this section.
Idealizing her voice, he conceived several roles with her in mind.
The role of all the idealizing assumptions will be defended at the end of this section.
I have mentioned various ways in which both the background assumptions and premises (3) to (5) contain idealizing assumptions.
Political veils mediate between citizens and their political structure, idealizing their best features and surrounding them in mystique.
In analysing the problem we have chosen the simple course of idealizing the temperature field as imposed.
