idealized image

noun

, Psychology.

1. a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
2. an exaggerated and unrealistic view of one's virtues and abilities.

Example Sentences

Among other details, top retailers allege that they were pushed by the Stidhams to have weight loss surgery to conform to their idealized image of what women should look like.

From Time

In stark contrast to our idealized image of the small family farmer and Americana, the pandemic has revealed hunger and poverty among farmers, farm and food industry workers.

From Time

And yet if the selfie is the most idealized image of the self, then Cubitt has worked to break through that frozen representation.

From The Daily Beast

Or when your relationship to a work of art, and to the world, is diminished in order to maintain a certain idealized image?

From The Daily Beast

His kiss remained imprinted on her lips and his idealized image on her heart.

From Project Gutenberg