Definition of "idealization" [i•de•al•i•za•tion]

• The act or process of idealizing. (noun)
• The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal. (noun)

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• "Laws almost always involve approximation and idealization Sometimes the idealization is so great that a law is quite inaccurate over parts of the range of phenomena it is supposed to cover (as is the law for the simple pendulum or the general gas laws)."
• "Though a certain work of idealization is required to posit or conceive of an object as non-thinkable, nonclassical theory presses on to "an epistemological double-rupture" whereby the idealization is identified as such."
• "In a way that recalls the idealization of Jean Genet by the French existentialists, it was his own freedom from constraints, as much as his urge to break the shackles of others, that drew the Transcendentalists to him."