ideality
Americannoun
plural
idealities-
ideal quality or character.
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capacity to idealize.
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Philosophy. existence only in idea and not in reality.
Etymology
Origin of ideality
Example Sentences
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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
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 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
An Orange tree, with its rich glossy foliage, its perfumed ivory flowers and buds, and abundant golden fruit, is an exquisite creation of nature; but an Orange grove has no ideality.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
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