ideality
noun
ideal quality or character.
idealities
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pluralof ideality.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
It was the genuine offspring of a young imagination, urged by the "strong necessity" of giving utterance to its bright idealities, the sighings of a heart looking beyond its lowly and lonely destiny.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
We may, perhaps, consider the Grecian gods as mere personifications and idealities, but those of the North are essentially real.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
They say, Love is his own avenger: and perhaps I shall be punished by finding my idealities realised in one who will not care for me.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
It is rather a means of universalizing the refinements of the intellect, the substantive idealities of imagination, by enveloping them in an elementary, primitive feeling which they call forth.
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
