Idealize
verb
To think of someone or something as being perfect or better than they really are.
He tends to idealize his job, forgetting the amount of hard work it actually involves.
Often appears as...
- idealize someone
- idealize something
verb
To describe or imagine something as being better or more perfect than it is in reality.
Artists often idealize their subjects, emphasizing their best features.
Often appears as...
- idealize a person
- idealize a place
verb
To think of someone or something as being perfect or better than they really are.
He tends to idealize his job, forgetting the amount of hard work it actually involves.
Often appears as...
- idealize someone
- idealize something
verb
To describe or imagine something as being better or more perfect than it is in reality.
Artists often idealize their subjects, emphasizing their best features.
Often appears as...
- idealize a person
- idealize a place
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Pro Tip 1/3Overestimation Pitfall
Avoid assuming that idealizing someone means you must ignore their flaws entirely.
Remember, when you idealize a mentor, you might overlook their important advice on learning from mistakes.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Be mindful that idealizing can involve strong emotions, which may cloud judgment.
In her admiration, she idealized the author and was blind to the weaknesses in his arguments.
Pro Tip 3/3Unrealistic Expectations
Using 'idealize' implies creating unrealistic standards someone or something may not meet.
He idealized college life so much that the actual experience couldn't match his expectations.
Pro Tip 1/3Overestimation Pitfall
Avoid assuming that idealizing someone means you must ignore their flaws entirely.
Remember, when you idealize a mentor, you might overlook their important advice on learning from mistakes.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Be mindful that idealizing can involve strong emotions, which may cloud judgment.
In her admiration, she idealized the author and was blind to the weaknesses in his arguments.
Pro Tip 3/3Unrealistic Expectations
Using 'idealize' implies creating unrealistic standards someone or something may not meet.
He idealized college life so much that the actual experience couldn't match his expectations.
Pro Tip 1/3Overestimation Pitfall
Avoid assuming that idealizing someone means you must ignore their flaws entirely.
Remember, when you idealize a mentor, you might overlook their important advice on learning from mistakes.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
Be mindful that idealizing can involve strong emotions, which may cloud judgment.
In her admiration, she idealized the author and was blind to the weaknesses in his arguments.
Pro Tip 3/3Unrealistic Expectations
Using 'idealize' implies creating unrealistic standards someone or something may not meet.
He idealized college life so much that the actual experience couldn't match his expectations.
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Jeff Hancock: 3 types of...
You know, we always think that hey, there are these idealized versions, people are just showing the best things that happened in their lives. I've thought that many times. My friends, no way they can be that cool and have good of a life. Well, one study tested this by examining people's personalities. They had four good friends of a person judge their personality. Then they had strangers, many strangers,
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The future of lying -...
think that hey there are these idealized versions people are just showing the best things that happen their lives I thought that many times my friends in no way they can be that cool and have that bit of a life well one study tested this by examining people's personalities they had four good friends of a person judge their personality then they had
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Michael Merzenich:...
a repertoire of sound that I make up, that I make, just by exposure, artificially important to the animal and its young brain. And what I see is that the animal's brain sets up its initial processing of that sound in a form that's idealized, within the limits of its processing achievements
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What it takes to make...
neither idealizing nor victimizing. It requires immersing in the lives of others, understanding the structures that get in their way and being honest about where they might be holding themselves back. That requires deep listening from a place of inquiry,
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How to fix a broken...
the unnecessary searches for explanations, idealizing your ex instead of focusing on how they were wrong for you, indulging thoughts and behaviors that still give them a starring role in this next chapter of your life when they shouldn't be an extra.
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Virginia Postrel: The...
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are.
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Rob Lowe PIPE The '90s:...
idealized version of myself we loved we loved every minute when the cameras were rolling on the west wing because we did know that we were doing something good I mean actors know when it's good everybody knows that's good and we
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Yochai Benkler:...
When I'm listening, when I'm not using, I can help you transfer your messages; and when you're not using, you'll help me transfer yours. And this is not an idealized version. These are working models that at least in some
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The game that can give...
to document how playing a game with an idealized avatar changes how we think and act in real life, making us more courageous, more ambitious, more committed to our goals. "I wish I'd led a life true to my dreams,
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Museums should honor the...
Respectability politics and idealized femininity influence how we display women and which women we choose to display.
Video examples
Jeff Hancock: 3 types of...
You know, we always think that hey, there are these idealized versions, people are just showing the best things that happened in their lives. I've thought that many times. My friends, no way they can be that cool and have good of a life. Well, one study tested this by examining people's personalities. They had four good friends of a person judge their personality. Then they had strangers, many strangers,
Video examples
The future of lying -...
think that hey there are these idealized versions people are just showing the best things that happen their lives I thought that many times my friends in no way they can be that cool and have that bit of a life well one study tested this by examining people's personalities they had four good friends of a person judge their personality then they had
Video examples
Michael Merzenich:...
a repertoire of sound that I make up, that I make, just by exposure, artificially important to the animal and its young brain. And what I see is that the animal's brain sets up its initial processing of that sound in a form that's idealized, within the limits of its processing achievements
Video examples
What it takes to make...
neither idealizing nor victimizing. It requires immersing in the lives of others, understanding the structures that get in their way and being honest about where they might be holding themselves back. That requires deep listening from a place of inquiry,
Video examples
How to fix a broken...
the unnecessary searches for explanations, idealizing your ex instead of focusing on how they were wrong for you, indulging thoughts and behaviors that still give them a starring role in this next chapter of your life when they shouldn't be an extra.
Video examples
Virginia Postrel: The...
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are.
Video examples
Rob Lowe PIPE The '90s:...
idealized version of myself we loved we loved every minute when the cameras were rolling on the west wing because we did know that we were doing something good I mean actors know when it's good everybody knows that's good and we
Video examples
Yochai Benkler:...
When I'm listening, when I'm not using, I can help you transfer your messages; and when you're not using, you'll help me transfer yours. And this is not an idealized version. These are working models that at least in some
Video examples
The game that can give...
to document how playing a game with an idealized avatar changes how we think and act in real life, making us more courageous, more ambitious, more committed to our goals. "I wish I'd led a life true to my dreams,
Video examples
Museums should honor the...
Respectability politics and idealized femininity influence how we display women and which women we choose to display.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are. So you can do a glamorized picture of a car, but you can't do a glamorized picture of traffic.
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Washed Out
American Musician
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
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Raquel Cassidy
English Actress
My fantasy life was very full. Certainly when I was a kid, I probably wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be a princess, or something magical, and get to dress up magically, and have the kind of life that I hadn't been born into, with magic powers or whatever, and live this wonderful idealised life.
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Stephanie Beatriz
American Actress
Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is an idealized, fun comedy world in which feminism is an underlying value that all the characters have. Equality is a value all the characters have. I mean, I want to live in that world. I'd like to make the world feel more like that, but I understand that it's a fantasy.
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Rufus Wainwright
Canadian Musician
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
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Joan Cusack
American Actress
Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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Tessa Virtue
Canadian Athlete
Women in figure skating, like in every other industry, are expected to conform to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Unhealthy habits are often encouraged to promote a thin frame, and young girls idealize a skewed definition of 'fit.
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Rumaan Alam
American Author
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.
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Robertson Davies
Canadian Novelist
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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Virginia Postrel
American Writer
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are. So you can do a glamorized picture of a car, but you can't do a glamorized picture of traffic.
Quote examples
Washed Out
American Musician
I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
Quote examples
Raquel Cassidy
English Actress
My fantasy life was very full. Certainly when I was a kid, I probably wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be a princess, or something magical, and get to dress up magically, and have the kind of life that I hadn't been born into, with magic powers or whatever, and live this wonderful idealised life.
Quote examples
Stephanie Beatriz
American Actress
Brooklyn Nine-Nine' is an idealized, fun comedy world in which feminism is an underlying value that all the characters have. Equality is a value all the characters have. I mean, I want to live in that world. I'd like to make the world feel more like that, but I understand that it's a fantasy.
Quote examples
Rufus Wainwright
Canadian Musician
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
Quote examples
Joan Cusack
American Actress
Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.
Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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Tessa Virtue
Canadian Athlete
Women in figure skating, like in every other industry, are expected to conform to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Unhealthy habits are often encouraged to promote a thin frame, and young girls idealize a skewed definition of 'fit.
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Rumaan Alam
American Author
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.
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Robertson Davies
Canadian Novelist
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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