Antonym: materialism. Similar words: idealist, idealistic, idealize, realism, surrealism, ideal, ideally, deal in. Meaning: ['aɪ'dɪəlɪzm] 
n. 1. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality 2. impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are 3. elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued.
n. 1. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality 2. impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are 3. elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued. 
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31 I see the play as an extension of that idea: a study of what happens when idealism goes sour.
32 You talk about achieving a balance between idealism and realism as if we already have a perfect one.
33 But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism.
34 This opens up the vexed relationship between idealism and reality.
35 According to this view, Idealism had made the mistake of subordinating political considerations to moral considerations.
36 Even when it is near its best, the call to faith in modern preaching can often border on idealism.
37 The country had been emancipated from thirteen years of middle-level Conservative rule of reasonable efficiency, modest dynamism but small-power idealism.
38 That idealism is threatened when a little boy is caught in a shoot-out between a cop and a drug dealer.
39 After a year or two with law professors, students have lost their idealism.
40 There was some measure of idealism and even altruism in this personal concept of my life work.
41 She was mourned both for who she was and what she represented-a passionate idealism grounded in a keen sense of reality.
42 Some of these differences were rooted in the extent to which the writers embraced positivism or Idealism.sentencedict.com/idealism.html
43 Such idealism is not the only reason why methods of alternative dispute resolution are supported.
44 Franklin Roosevelt, who equated wealth with energy and idealism, heartily endorsed the appointment.
45 Its pages brimmed with the idealism, patriotism, and commitment to national service that Groton instilled in its young charges.
46 But at times the divine value seems absent from nature, and man is left alone with his idealism.
47 What the idealism of the non-aligned movement could not bring about may finally happen through realpolitik.
48 Idealism, rough elan, a spirit of tough good spread through us.
49 Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism?
50 Are student extremists different from other students in their intelligence or idealism or independence?
51 Even the ridiculous decor in the Central Lobby reinforced this idealism.
52 Chapter 5 focuses particularly on the thorny question of idealism.
53 But I think there is a positive idealism in him that makes him a major Shakespearean figure.
54 He could now move from cultural idealism and aesthetic values to political commitment.
55 On the other, the government mishandled student protest, wildly overreacting to an essentially ephemeral product of youthful idealism.
56 They preach idealism whereas we advocate materialism.
57 Idealism is opposite to materialism.
58 Kant and Hegel have developed idealism.
59 This experience has tempered their idealism.
60 Materialism and idealism are different forms of attributive monism.
More similar words: idealist, idealistic, idealize, realism, surrealism, ideal, ideally, deal in, beau ideal, realist, realise, realised, realistic, double-dealing, talisman, vandalism, fatalism, socialism, pluralism, journalism, feudalism, mutualism, liberalism, gradualism, imperialism, communalism, federalism, minimalism, capitalism, radicalism.