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idealism
  1. The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
  2. The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
  3. (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His shrewd assessment of political reality was wedded to a belief in the necessity of moral idealism in human affairs.”
      “Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood.”
      “The first important school of thought to arise out of Kantian philosophy was the subjective idealism of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.”
idealist
  1. (philosophy) One who adheres to idealism.
  2. Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.
  3. An unrealistic or impractical visionary.
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    1. “Affected by delusions, he had undertaken the action of an idealist without any notion of the consequences.”
      “The idealist fervently argued for the unwavering adherence to ethical principles in all aspects of life.”
      “Yeah, the idealist is still alive, somewhere deep under this calloused skin.”
ideality
  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being ideal.
  2. (uncountable) The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection.
  3. The conceptive faculty.
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    1. “Formal possibilities, qua formal, are indefinite and the vast array of this multitude of possibilities can be considered in their pure ideality.”
      “Lincoln was successful in attaining the ideality of the Gettysburg Address.”
      “To sublimate is thus to confer ideality on that someone or something through which the subject articulates his or her ineffable desire.”
ideal
  1. A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
  2. (mathematics) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
    1. (for example, algebra) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
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    1. “Many consider the nuclear family to be an ideal that households should strive for.”
      “These ads are trying to tell me what the ideal in terms of body shape should be.”
      “Members must be able to identify themselves with the ideal of the organization.”
idealization
  1. The act or process of idealizing.
  2. The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
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    1. “His idealization of the famous artist went so far that he believed every brushstroke was pure genius.”
      “The young artist's idealization of her home city in her painting captured its beauty and charm, which seemed even grander than reality.”
      “Chasseguet-Smirgel discusses the idealization of pregenital sexuality as a hallmark of the perversions.”
idealogue
  1. One given to fanciful ideas or theories; someone who theorizes or speculates.
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    1. “Instead, he presents himself, and by extension, the party, as an idealogue and crusader for the values of a shameful past.”
      “That buffoonish behaviour, the clownish exuberance masks a hard right idealogue of unlimited ambition.”
      “The firm slimes a swing-voting moderate justice coming up for re-election and manufactures a winning campaign for a young right-wing idealogue.”
idealness
  1. The state or quality of being ideal; the ideality.
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    1. “The idealness of the Point for machine guns to repel any landing, seems only too evident.”
idealisation
  1. Alternative spelling of idealization
  2. Examples:
    1. “The idealisation of motherhood puts serious physical and emotional pressures on women.”
      “Each of these individuals incarnated certain character traits which made them suitable for mass idealisation and adoration.”
      “The general level of ignorance on what is good or bad behaviour is compounded by the idealisation of childhood.”
idealiser
  1. Alternative form of idealizer
  2. Examples:
    1. “Orwell was indeed unsociable, anti-feminist and homophobic, but only ambiguously anti-Semitic, and by no means such a dewy-eyed idealiser of the plebs as some have imagined.”
idealizer
idealizations
  1. plural of idealization
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    1. “We must break past idealizations of community and embrace what is before us.”
      “As idealizations, they appear to be predicated on normative but contradictory and ultimately irreconcilable understandings of excellence.”
      “Such implausible idealizations, then as now, go hand in hand with nostalgia for the lost or vanishing world of the Gael as initially evoked by ethnographic prefaces.”
idealisations
  1. plural of idealisation
idealisers
  1. plural of idealiser
idealogues
idealizers
idealisms
  1. plural of idealism
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    1. “This difference is paralleled by the nature of the idealisms to which the two proofs are opposed and which they profess to refute.”
      “Those who heard him felt how superior his position was, both in rigour and in force, to the prevailing inversions and idealisms.”
      “Like other idealisms, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.”
idealists
  1. plural of idealist
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    1. “They are remote and unrealistic ivory-tower idealists, corrupt self-seekers, secret subversives, or simply too weak to resist villainy.”
      “If we perish, it will not be of failure or finitude but of breathless, bright-eyed idealists for whom the sky's the limit.”
      “We are idealists, anarchists, guerrilla tacticians, pranksters, neo-Luddites, poets, philosophers and punks.”
idealities
ideals
  1. plural of ideal
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    1. “The problem is that their professed ideals are at odds with their lack of self-awareness.”
      “It starred Russell Crowe as a young skinhead on a path of self-destruction, though his ideals blind him to the damage he is doing to himself.”
      “Many architectural historians maintain that Mission furniture adhered more closely to the Arts and Crafts ideals than most British work did.”
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