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What does idealizing mean?

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  1. present participle of idealize
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Whether he painted the patricians and artists of Antwerp, the nobles of Genoa, or the court of Charles I, van Dyck succeeded in idealizing his models without sacrificing any of their individuality.
I'm not idealizing the existence of those Gypsies who live in incredibly bad conditions in Rome and Turin, but I know happy Gypsies, too.
But De Quincey generally sees a much deeper technical significance, an idealizing or unrealizing effect in the language.
That same year Longfellow published Hyperion, a romantic novel idealizing his European travels.
Market fundamentalism in the nineties has meant idealizing the marketplace as something that can take care of everything that matters to people.
The principle of this logic of belief can be understood as idealizing the student into an ideal reasoner.

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