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View definitions for idealized

idealized

adjective as in idealistic

adjective as in idyllic

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Mathematically, fundamental particles are idealized as point particles, which is to say that, as far as we can tell, they have no meaningfully discernible spatial extent, or substructure, at all.

Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers.

I’m always wary of idealizing certain periods in the past, and I think there were a lot of problems in that time.

Unlike any other show, no relationship is idealized above any other.

But there is always a preceding generation, or an idealized time in our personal histories.

The photograph shook up the idea of a model American family during a time when the picture-perfect family was idealized.

And yet if the selfie is the most idealized image of the self, then Cubitt has worked to break through that frozen representation.

The transformative process “should not be trivialized or idealized,” Miller said.

A friendship had arisen between them, which the years had idealized rather than impaired.

He idealized human beauty, and imitated Nature to the minutest details.

You'll say I idealized her; possibly I did, but there she is.

But now the smithy was not merely idealized, it was transformed.

In all his poems, he has idealized fidelity and constancy in love.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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