Definitions for idealisms

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idealisms i·de·al·ism

Spelling: [ahy-dee-uh-liz-uh m]

IPA: /aɪˈdi əˌlɪz əm/

Idealisms is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 462 anagrams from letters in idealisms (adeiilmss).

Definitions for idealisms

noun

1. the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
2. the practice of idealizing.
3. something idealized; an ideal representation.
4. 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).
5. 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.

Origin of idealisms

1790-1800; ideal + -ism, probably modeled on German Idealismus

Examples for idealisms

Indeed, his philosophy is generally classed amongst the idealisms.

These idealisms have recognized the genuineness of connexions and the impotency of "feeling."

Those who heard him felt how superior his position was, both in rigour and in force, to the prevailing inversions and idealisms.

Once more, Spinoza's solution is typical, and its form is that of all idealisms as well.

The photographer was a man of whims and idealisms; his wife had a strong vein of worldly ambition.

This difference is paralleled by the nature of the idealisms to which the two proofs are opposed and which they profess to refute.

Will the eternal silence make mock of his dreams and his idealisms, laugh coldly at 'the splendid purpose in his eyes'?

Let us beware how we extinguish the feeblest of youth's idealisms.

Losing sight of his idealisms, nineteenth-century man evolved a thoroughly materialistic philosophy.

Like other idealisms, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.