idealizers
Those glorifying others
Idealizers are people who view something or someone in an unrealistically favorable light, ignoring flaws or limitations.
The term often carries a faintly critical edge, suggesting naivety or willful blindness: Her idealizers refused to acknowledge her obvious shortcomings.
In psychoanalytic contexts, idealizers are patients who project perfection onto their therapist.
Idealists about love
- fantasistsHabitual imaginers of unrealities
- daydreamersHabitual mental wanderers
- utopiansAdvocates for ideal societies
- stargazersThose who observe celestial bodies
quixotic · hopeful · naive · impractical · fanciful · dreamy · imaginative · escapists
Those demanding flawless standards
- puristsStrict adherence advocates
- absolutistsThose holding unconditional views
- optimizersThings that maximize efficiency
- refinersFacilities that purify substances
polishers · elevators · enhancers · improvers · uncompromising · exacting · meticulous · demanding
Followers of Athenian idealism
- abstractionistsArtists favoring non-representational work
- theoristsBuilders of explanatory frameworks
- metaphysiciansPhilosophers studying fundamental reality
- transcendentalistsBelievers in intuitive spiritual knowledge
essentialists · rationalists · conceptualists · systematizers · absolutists · universalists
Predictors of coming developments
- prophetsProclaimers of sacred truth
- seersThose claiming foresight
- forecastersThose who anticipate outcomes
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
luminaries · guides · trailblazers · thought-leaders · oracles · prognosticators · inspired · prescient
romantics
Idealists about love
- fantasistsHabitual imaginers of unrealities
- daydreamersHabitual mental wanderers
- utopiansAdvocates for ideal societies
stargazers · quixotic · hopeful · naive · impractical · fanciful · dreamy · imaginative · escapists · optimists
perfectionists
Those demanding flawless standards
- puristsStrict adherence advocates
- absolutistsThose holding unconditional views
- optimizersThings that maximize efficiency
refiners · polishers · elevators · enhancers · improvers · uncompromising · exacting · meticulous · demanding
Platonists
Followers of Athenian idealism
- abstractionistsArtists favoring non-representational work
- theoristsBuilders of explanatory frameworks
- metaphysiciansPhilosophers studying fundamental reality
transcendentalists · essentialists · rationalists · conceptualists · systematizers · absolutists · universalists
futurists
Predictors of coming developments
- prophetsProclaimers of sacred truth
- seersThose claiming foresight
- forecastersThose who anticipate outcomes
pioneers · luminaries · guides · trailblazers · thought-leaders · oracles · prognosticators · inspired · prescient · forward-thinkers
idealizerscynics
Doubters of sincerity
realists · pessimists · denigrators · skeptics · detractors
idealizersdemonizers
Those who portray as evil
vilifiers · devaluers · belittlers · minimizers · debunkers
idealizersrealists
Those accepting things as-is
pragmatists · skeptics · literalists · empiricists · rationalists
- idealized beautyImagined physical flawlessness