Associations to the word «Idealism»
Noun
- Materialism
- Hegel
- Kant
- Realism
- Romanticism
- Marxism
- Skepticism
- Absolute
- Optimism
- Mysticism
- Plato
- Philosophy
- Descartes
- Marx
- Ism
- Schiller
- Hume
- Critique
- Humanism
- Berkeley
- Thinker
- Nietzsche
- Liberalism
- Philo
- Enlightenment
- Emerson
- Philosopher
- Worldview
- Locke
- Ideal
- Standpoint
- Reality
- Royce
- Fascism
- Consciousness
- Intuition
- Eighteenth
- Abstraction
- Friedrich
- Spirituality
- Patriotism
- Rejection
- Neo
- Bourgeois
- Romantic
- Nineteenth
- Huxley
- Imperialism
- Ontology
- Doctrine
- Aesthetics
- Perceiving
- Tran
- Theology
- Herder
- Coleridge
- Immortality
- Conception
- Ideology
- Josiah
- Georg
- Marxist
- Woodrow
- Jena
- Essence
- Shelley
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
IDEALISM, noun. The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
IDEALISM, noun. 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.
IDEALISM, noun. (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
Dictionary definition
IDEALISM, noun. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality.
IDEALISM, noun. Impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are.
IDEALISM, noun. Elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued.
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.