Meaning & use
idealized
Represented or regarded as perfect or better than reality, often ignoring flaws or difficulties.
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The travel brochure showed an idealized version of the resort, far nicer than reality.
He remembered his childhood through an idealized lens, forgetting how hard those years actually were.
A note on using this word
Idealized is the past participle of idealize and often implies the depiction leaves out unflattering or inconvenient details.
Words with a similar meaning
romanticizedglorified
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