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Ideality

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The state or quality of being ideal.

n. Existence in idea only.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality or state of being ideal.

n. The capacity to form deals of beauty or perfection.

n. The conceptive faculty.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being ideal.

n. The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.

n. The conceptive faculty.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The condition or quality of being ideal: opposed to reality; in the Hegelian philos., existence only as an element, factor, or moment.

n. The faculty or capacity of forming ideals.

n. That which is ideal or unreal.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being ideal

Word Usage

"If this power (which may be described, although not defined, as the capacity for resolving thought into its elements) be not, in fact, an essential portion of what late philosophers term ideality, then there are indeed many good reasons for supposing it a primitive faculty."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

quality

Cross Reference

transcendental ideality

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

virility idealism largeness immanence objectivity