ideal type
noun
a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
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Nearby words
ideal element, ideal gas, ideal gas law, ideal of pure reason, ideal point, ideal type, idealise, idealism, idealist, idealistic, ideality
Origin of ideal type
First recorded in 1925–30
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