ideality
Americannoun
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idealities
plural
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ideal quality or character.
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capacity to idealize.
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Philosophy. existence only in idea and not in reality.
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Others upped the ideality quotient by trekking into the countryside, through farmlands and forests, down to the sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole world of objects is and remains idea, and therefore wholly and for ever determined by the subject; that is to say, it has transcendental ideality.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
Still, I can scarcely tell why, he does not complete my idealities.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
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
When the senses fall away, it is left, imperishable denizen of its own appropriate world of idealities.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Between the bitter, despairing, yet fundamentally romantic ratiocinations of Balzac, and the idealities of Goethe and Heine, the poor baker dwelt in the most unreal of worlds.
From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg
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
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