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n. The act or practice of envisioning things in an ideal form.

n. Pursuit of one's ideals.

n. Idealized treatment of a subject in literature or art.

n. Philosophy The theory that the object of external perception, in itself or as perceived, consists of ideas.

n. The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.

n. An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

n. The quality or state of being ideal.

n. Conception of the ideal; imagery.

n. 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.

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.

n. a belief in the feasibility of the implementation of ideal principles and noble goals, and the practice or habit of pursuing such goals; -- opposed to realism and cynicism.

n. The metaphysical doctrine that the real is of the nature of thought; the doctrine that all reality is in its nature psychical.

n. Pursuit of the ideal; the act or practice of idealizing; especially, imaginative treatment of subjects; a striving after ideal beauty, truth, justice, etc.

n. In art, the effort to realize the highest type of any natural object by eliminating all its imperfect elements and combining the perfect into a whole which represents Nature, not as she is exhibited in any one example, but as she might be.

n. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality

n. impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are

n. elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued

"We suspect that, for most people, the difference between “self-congratulatory idealism” and admirable idealism comes down to this: If the idealism is about something that is safely in the past or safely far away and has nothing to do with me, it's admirable, or at least harmless; if it does have something to do with me and my behavior, then it must be judgmental and self-congratulatory."

realism    cynicism   

philosophical doctrine    philosophical theory    nobleness    nobility    grandeur   

cosmothetic idealism    objective idealism    subjective idealism    transcendental idealism    berkeleian idealism   

idealist    idealistically    idealistic   

epistemological idealism    metaphysical idealism   

imagery   

surrealism   

optimism    realism    mysticism    materialism    aspiration