Definition of "idealizing" [idealizing]

• Present participle of idealize. (verb)

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• "These people keep pining for some sort of idealized “perfect America” when in fact what they are idealizing is their childhood!"
• "Realization that life is growth protects us from that so-called idealizing of childhood which in effect is nothing but lazy indulgence."
• "Therefore there are many discerning persons who hold that he was "idealizing" when he wrote of them being at court at the time Dunkirk was sold."