idealizing
Seeing as perfect
Idealizing means representing or imagining something as better than it actually is.
To idealize a person, time, or place is to overlook flaws and emphasize virtues: She's idealizing her childhood—it wasn't that idyllic.
The word often carries a note of caution, suggesting the view is unrealistic or naive: Stop idealizing him; he's not perfect.
Uncritical excessive admiration
- idolizationExtreme reverent admiration
- glorificationElevating praise or worship
- adulationExtravagant, servile praise
- lionizationTreating as a celebrity
worship · reverence · pedestal · admiration · devotion · fandom · celebrity · mentor
Entirely without fault
- immaculateCompletely without blemish
- pristinePure and untouched
- unblemishedFree from any defect
- faultlessFree from any defect
utopia · epitome · quintessence · paragon · exemplary · optimal · pinnacle · sublime
Pinkish or overly hopeful
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- fantasizingImagining desired scenarios
- sentimentalizingIndulging excessive emotion
- daydreamingIdle mental wandering
wistfulness · embellishing · whitewashing · yesteryear · bittersweet · reminiscence · longing · unrealistic
hero-worship
Uncritical excessive admiration
- idolizationExtreme reverent admiration
- glorificationElevating praise or worship
- adulationExtravagant, servile praise
lionization · worship · reverence · pedestal · admiration · devotion · fandom · celebrity · mentor · icon
flawless
Entirely without fault
- immaculateCompletely without blemish
- pristinePure and untouched
- unblemishedFree from any defect
faultless · utopia · epitome · quintessence · paragon · exemplary · optimal · pinnacle · sublime · perfect
rose-colored
Pinkish or overly hopeful
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- fantasizingImagining desired scenarios
- sentimentalizingIndulging excessive emotion
daydreaming · wistfulness · embellishing · whitewashing · yesteryear · bittersweet · reminiscence · longing · unrealistic · escapism
ambition
Desire for achievement
hope · striving · potential · yearning · longing · pursuit · motivation · drive · aspiring · envisioning
- glorificationglorifying, glorification, exalting, exaltation, idolizing
- self psychologymirroring, twinship, transmuting, fragmentation, attunement
- imaginationimagination, daydreaming, daydreams, fantasies, fantasy
- obsessionsobsession, fixation, monomania, preoccupation, mania
- stylizingbeautifying, embellishing, ornamenting, decorating, enhancing
- mythmakingfounding myths, founding myth, origin stories, origin story, mythos
idealizingdemonizing
Portraying as evil
vilifying · disparaging · denigrating · devaluing · deprecating
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