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.
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91 And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause.
92 Based on the foundation of treating Poor Law, the school of Oxford Idealism and T.
93 It might also be alleged that subjective idealism tended to promote self-conceit.
94 The high integration of ideality and reality is the distinct characteristic of Marxian idealism.
95 The theory of communicative action has critical characteristic and at the same time it takes on idealism.
96 It essentially originated from the American culture value, and its entitative character is embodied in the dissimilation of the two diplomatic traditions called idealism and realism.
97 Forth is about female wanderer narrative, This kind of novelette always have romantic and idealism tendency, and bring some fresh air into new century literature.
98 One, akin to nominalism and idealism , finds its expression today in finitism and intuitionism.
99 Maybe it's a sign of idealism, in an endearing belief in the goodness in people and the brotherhood of man that makes people trot out their lowest moments like circus ponies.
100 Gentlemen talk about sentimentalities, about idealism. They like practical statesmanship better. But, Mr.
101 It belongs to the tradition of Titian and Rembrandt and Delacroix, and not just to the asceticism and idealism of the early twentieth century.
102 Cherubini, the musical czar of Paris and the link between classic idealism and modern romanticism.
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103 The debate will be over priorities, transcending the longstanding debate between idealism and realism.
104 Counterbalancing the idealism of Plato's philosophy is Aristotle's background as the son of a doctor.
105 Its name means "middle" and derives from its middle position between the realism of the Sarvastivada school and the idealism of the Yogacara school.
106 Historic events used in historic paintings are usually major events widely known by society. Meanwhile, painters generally stress idealism and typification in their artistic expression.
107 The concern of the American youth of the 1960's recognized such commentaries, reflects a heightened idealism.
108 I suspect that one day they will say that the EU's unforgivable crime was to take their idealism and hope and throw them away for the sake of a harebrained currency experiment.
109 Here we have the morally vacuous idealism that venerates a mass murderer: It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you really believe it and give it your all.
110 Man is, as it were, sandwiched between heaven and earth, between idealism and realism, between lofty thoughts and the baser passions.
111 Traditional Donnean critics have often celebrated Donne's vivid realism in his idea of love, while traits of idealism have not received adequate critical emphasis.
112 Maly understood the idealism of people like Philby and Burgess, and their desire for political action.
113 In Manchester period, Engel thoroughly transferred from revolutionary democratism to communism and from idealism to materialism.
114 Even so, you'veprobably also run up against people who love your idealism, but warn you tolower your sights, to scale back your ambitions a bit, to settle for somethingless.
115 Wang's Great Criticism Series has often seemed haunted by the artist's lament over the loss of idealism in Chinese social life, the ease with which one ideology replaced another in post-Mao China.
116 You're a multi-billionaire. But doesn't, at some point, all the opportunities for you kind of tug away at that young idealism?
117 The combination of these points with religious mysticism by Pythogoras school made an important impact on the later theory of "logos", theory of form, rationalism, idealism and religious philosophy.
118 So much talent; so many men of genius; such ennobling idealism.
119 Man is, as it were, sandwiched between heaven and earth, between idealism and realism, between lofty thoughts and baser passions.
120 Those intense days, said Silverstein, now 37, were "a crucible" that bonded that first generation in a culture of idealism.
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