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

(transitive) To regard something as ideal. / (intransitive) To conceive or form an ideal. / (transitive, art) To portray using idealization.

(US) Regarded as ideal. / (US) Considered as an ideal form of something.

simple past tense and past participle of idealize

The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.

The state or quality of being ideal; the ideality.

(uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal. / (uncountable) The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection. / The conceptive faculty.

in the best or most perfect way

perfect; most suitable; best possible

(algebra) An ideal I in an algebraic object R (which could be a ring, algebra, semigroup or lattice) that is generated by a given single element a ∈ R; the smallest ideal that contains a.