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Idealism

Idealism Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Idealism? [n] elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued [n] impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are [n] the doctrine that ideas are the only reality Synonyms \| Synonyms for Idealism: high-mindedness \| noble-mindedness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Idealism: absolute idealism \| animatism \| animism \| archetype \| aspiration \| autism \| autistic thinking \| Berkeleianism \| bigheartedness \| bigness \| chivalrousness \| chivalry \| complex idea \| dereism \| dereistic thinking \| dream \| dreamery \| elevation \| errantry \| eternal object \| eternal universal \| exaltation \| exemplar \| flight of fancy \| form \| formal cause \| Geistesgeschichte \| generosity \| generousness \| great heart \| greatheartedness \| greatness \| greatness of heart \| Hegelian idea \| Hegelianism \| heroism \| high goal \| highest category \| high-mindedness \| history of ideas \| hylozoism \| ideal \| ideality \| idealization \| ideals \| ideate \| ideatum \| idee-force \| imaginative exercise \| immaterialism \| impracticality \| innate idea \| Kantian idea \| Kantianism \| knight-errantry \| knightliness \| largeheartedness \| liberality \| liberalness \| loftiness \| magnanimity \| magnanimousness \| materialism \| metaphysical idealism \| model \| monistic idealism \| Neoplatonism \| nobility \| noble-mindedness \| nobleness \| noosphere \| noumenon \| openhandedness \| panpsychism \| pattern \| percept \| personalism \| Platonic form \| Platonic idea \| Platonism \| play of fancy \| princeliness \| prototype \| psychism \| quixotism \| quixotry \| reaching high \| regulative first principle \| romance \| romanticism \| simple idea \| solipsism \| spiritualism \| subjectivism \| sublimity \| subsistent form \| the Absolute \| the Absolute Idea \| the realized ideal \| the Self-determined \| transcendent idea \| transcendent nonempirical concept \| transcendent universal \| transcendental \| universal \| universal concept \| universal essence \| unpracticalness \| unrealism \| unreality \| upward looking \| utopianism \| visionariness \| wish fulfillment \| wishful thinking \| wish-fulfillment fantasy See Also \| grandeur \| impracticality \| knight errantry \| magnanimousness \| nobility \| philosophical doctrine \| philosophical theory \| quixotism \| romanticism Idealism In Webster's Dictionary \Ide"alism\, n. [Cf. F. id['e]alisme.] 1. The quality or state of being ideal. 2. Conception of the ideal; imagery. 3. (Philos.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations. \Ide"alism\, n. 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}.

Idealism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Idealism?

[n] elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued
[n] impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
[n] the doctrine that ideas are the only reality

Synonyms | Synonyms for Idealism: high-mindedness | noble-mindedness

Idealism In Webster's Dictionary

\I*de"al*ism\, n. [Cf. F. id['e]alisme.]
1. The quality or state of being ideal.

2. Conception of the ideal; imagery.

3. (Philos.) The system or theory that denies the existence
   of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational
   grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas
   and their relations.


\I*de"al*ism\, n.
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}.

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