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What does idealize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word idealize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
  2. (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
  3. (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.
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The professions that we idealize and aspire towards deserve a closer look as well.
At the same time, however, they would come to idealize the comradeship of the trenches and to support civic virtues.
Your reasoning will be passionate and your mind will tend to idealize things.
Harlequin romances idealize traditional male and female gender roles and always have a happy ending.
Castles themselves housed many men but few women, and poets, wishing to idealize physical passion, looked beyond the marriage state.
If anything, it allows for a reverse form of cultural prejudice, through which critics idealize large groups of people they barely understand.

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