Definitions for ideologies

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ideologies i·de·ol·o·gy

Spelling: [ahy-dee-ol-uh-jee, id-ee-]

IPA: /ˌaɪ diˈɒl ə dʒi, ˌɪd i-/

Ideologies is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in ideologies (deegiiloos).

Definitions for ideologies

noun

1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, as that of fascism, along with the devices for putting it into operation.
3. Philosophy. the study of the nature and origin of ideas. a system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation.
4. theorizing of a visionary or impractical nature.

Origin of ideologies

1790-1800; ideo- + -logy; compare French idéologie

Examples for ideologies

In an age of the death of ideologies, this is a poor – and dangerous – choice.

But religions and ideologies are the opposite of flexible and compromising.

This article is not a piece of commentary about beliefs or ideologies.

But essentially, it was a war of ideologies, just as the previous one had been.

And in other countries other ideologies were freely supported.

So ideologies arose to try to solve the dilemma of a basically static society, and they fought wars.

But it will take more than superficial solidarity to dismantle those structures and the ideologies that birthed them.

Religions and ideologies are unscrupulous in their use of the past.

A higher threshold would force the two to remain in allegiance even amidst serious departures in ideologies.

Yet it is our ideologies that bring war, besides, do not the ends justify the means?