ideality
Americannoun
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idealities
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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
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
He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The ample brow looks the home of ideality and enterprise, the aquiline nose hints endurance and tireless energy.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith
This had been cast in plates having sculptured symbols in high relief of the sublime emblems of Harikar, and portrayed scenes from the idealities and mysteries of Egyplosis.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
Nothing is uniform to a soul really set on the idealities of art.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
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
His metaphysical sense did not spring into life, so that his mind could leap the bars of German expression into sympathy with the idealities of Kant and Hegel.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Esther had dealt a blow to his fastidious idealities.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
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