verb
- to think of or represent someone or something as perfect or better than they really are
Examples
- She tends to idealize her childhood memories.
- Many people idealize celebrities without knowing their flaws.
- The movie idealizes small-town life in the 1950s.
- He idealized his father and couldn’t see his mistakes.
- Don’t idealize the past – it had problems too.
- The artist idealized the human form in his sculptures.