Associations to the word «Idealize»

Wiktionary

IDEALIZE, verb. (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
IDEALIZE, verb. (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
IDEALIZE, verb. (art) To portray using idealization.

Dictionary definition

IDEALIZE, verb. Consider or render as ideal; "She idealized her husband after his death".
IDEALIZE, verb. Form ideals; "Man has always idealized".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope