ALL meanings of idealism
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I i - noun idealism The practice of forming or pursuing ideals, especially unrealistically. 1
- noun idealism the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. 1
- noun idealism the practice of idealizing. 1
- noun idealism something idealized; an ideal representation. 1
- noun idealism Fine Arts. treatment of subject matter in a work of art in which a mental conception of beauty or form is stressed, characterized usually by the selection of particular features of various models and their combination into a whole according to a standard of perfection. Compare naturalism (def 2), realism (def 3a). 1
- noun idealism Philosophy. any system or theory that maintains that the real is of the nature of thought or that the object of external perception consists of ideas. the tendency to represent things in an ideal form, or as they might or should be rather than as they are, with emphasis on values. 1
- noun idealism lack of practicality 1
- noun idealism philosophy: non-materialism 1
- noun idealism daydreaming, wishful thinking 1
- noun idealism any of various theories which hold that: 0
- noun idealism things exist only as ideas in the mind rather than as material objects independent of the mind 0
- noun idealism things in the material world are actually manifestations of an independent realm of unchanging, immaterial models or forms 0
- noun idealism The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life. 0
- noun idealism 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. 0
- noun idealism (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures. 0
- uncountable noun idealism Idealism is the beliefs and behaviour of someone who has ideals and who tries to base their behaviour on these ideals. 0
- noun idealism belief in or pursuance of ideals 0
- noun idealism the tendency to represent things in their ideal forms, rather than as they are 0
- noun idealism any of a group of philosophical doctrines that share the monistic view that material objects and the external world do not exist in reality independently of the human mind but are variously creations of the mind or constructs of ideas 0
- noun idealism behavior or thought based on a conception of things as they should be or as one would wish them to be; idealization 0
- noun idealism a striving to achieve one's ideals 0
- noun idealism imaginative treatment in art that seeks to show the artist's or author's conception of perfection; representation of imagined types, or ideals 0