overidealize
verb
over·ide·al·ize ˌō-vər-ī-ˈdē-(ə-)ˌlīz 
overidealized; overidealizing
transitive verb
: to attribute unrealistically ideal characteristics to (something or someone)
tended to overidealize his mother
overidealizing the past
… the documentary … focuses on creating a complete picture of the sometimes overidealized author to show her for the complicated woman she was.
Karen Shade
Karen Shade
Word History
First Known Use
1852, in the meaning defined above
- demobilising
- demobilization
- demobilizations
- demobilize
- demobilized
- demobilizes
- demobilizing
- demobs
- demochelyses
- democracies
- democracy
- democrat
- democrat wagon
- democratic
- democratic centralism
- democratic republic of the congo
- democratic socialism
- democratic socialist
- Democratic-Republican
- democratically
- democratisatia
- democratisation
- democratisations
- gets along
- gets around