idealize

• idealise (non-Oxford British English)

From ideal +‎ -ize.^[1] Compare French idéaliser.

• IPA^(key): /aɪˈdiːəlaɪz/, /ˈaɪdɪəˌlaɪz/

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idealize (third-person singular simple present idealizes, present participle idealizing, simple past and past participle idealized)

1. (transitive) To regard something as ideal.
2. (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal.
   • 1975 December 20, Alan Belkin, “On Relationships”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 5:

     People tell me that I wouldn't be so anxious for a lover if I knew the kinds of problems which such a relationship brings, to which I reply that, yes, perhaps I am idealizing somewhat, but basically I know that people aren't plastic, and that where there are human beings there are problems, and, all the same, I think it can be worth it in the long run if there is honesty on both sides.

3. (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.

• “idealize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “idealize”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

idealize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of idealizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

idealize

1. inflection of idealizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative