“Idealized” or “Idealised”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “idealized” and 4 prefer “idealised”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	idealized	idealised	Preference
United States	98	2	“idealized”
United Kingdom	21	79	“idealised”
India	74	26	“idealized”
Philippines	100	0	“idealized”
Canada	100	0	“idealized”
Australia	33	67	“idealised”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	40	60	“idealised”
New Zealand	38	62	“idealised”
Jamaica	100	0	“idealized”
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“idealized”

…to create two distinct and idealized urban milieus, each appropriate to…
…Roman imperial families, were given idealized nude bodies; by now this…
…mathematicians used a compass and idealized ruler for constructions of lengths,…
…defined in terms of an idealized measuring instrument.
…not occur, even in an idealized system.
…a pervasive earlier notion of idealized politics set against market failure.
Demacia is inspired by an idealized Medieval European kingdom, while Noxus…
The idealized chemical reaction is (where n…
According to Lowe (1982), Whitehead "idealized youth and wanted young thinkers…
In an idealized nuclear magnetic resonance experiment, the…

“idealised”

…specific for an 'allegorical' or 'idealised' portrait.
Against Burke's idealised portrait of Marie Antoinette as…
…activities and capacities, actual or idealised, have no place in the…
It shows an idealised arrangement with individual cells for…
On idealised straight track, a wheelset would…
…Indonesian readers – accustomed to idealised literature – being shocked by…
…is presented in more conventionally idealised romantic terms; but Constance disappears…
…was a rather glossy and idealised picture.
…in the history of Christianity idealised by the 19th-century French Romantic
…always a romantic conservative who idealised the Middle Ages and was…

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