idealism

idealism

English

Etymology

First attested 1796, from ideal +‎ -ism.

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Noun

idealism (countable and uncountable, plural idealisms)

1. The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
2. The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.[1]
3. (philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

   Synonym: philosophical idealism

   Antonym: materialism

Derived terms

• epistemological idealism
• metaphysical idealism

Related terms

• idealist
• idealistic
• idealistically
• perfectionism

Translations

property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Catalan: idealisme (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 理想主义 (zh) (lǐxiǎngzhǔyì) Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: idealismi (fi), idealistisuus French: idéalisme (fr) m German: Idealismus (de) m Greek: ιδεαλισμός (el) m (idealismós) Ido: idealismo (io) Irish: idéalachas m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: idealizmas m Polish: idealizm (pl) m Romanian: idealism (ro) n Russian: идеали́зм (ru) m (idealízm) Slovene: idealizem m Spanish: idealismo (es) m Tagalog: pagkamauliran, pagkamakauliran Turkish: ülkücülük (tr), idealizm (tr) Ukrainian: ідеалі́зм (uk) m (idealízm)

practice of giving ideal character

Finnish: idealisointi, idealisaatio, idealismi (fi) German: Idealisierung (de) m Indonesian: idealisme (id) Polish: idealizm (pl) m Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can

an approach to philosophical enquiry

Arabic: مِثَالِيَّة‎ f (miṯāliyya) Armenian: իդեալիզմ (hy) (idealizm) Bulgarian: идеали́зъм (bg) m (idealízǎm) Catalan: idealisme (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 唯心主義／唯心主义 (zh) (wéixīnzhǔyì) Czech: idealismus m Esperanto: ideismo Finnish: idealismi (fi) French: idéalisme (fr) m Galician: idealismo m German: Idealismus (de) m Greek: ιδεαλισμός (el) m (idealismós) Hindi: प्रत्ययवाद (hi) m (pratyayvād) Icelandic: hughyggja f Ido: idealismo (io) Indonesian: idealisme (id) Irish: idéalachas m Italian: idealismo (it) m Japanese: 観念論 (ja) (かんねんろん, kannenron), イデアリスム (idearizumu) Lithuanian: idealizmas m Polish: idealizm (pl) m Portuguese: idealismo (pt) m Romanian: idealism (ro) n Russian: идеали́зм (ru) m (idealízm) Serbo-Croatian: idealizam (sh) m Slovene: idealizem m Spanish: idealismo (es) m Tagalog: pagkamauliran, pagkamakauliran Turkish: idealizm (tr) Ukrainian: ідеалі́зм (uk) m (idealízm)

See also

• realism
• pragmatism
• materialism
• physicalism

References

• idealism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• idealism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

1. http://www.websters1913.com/words/Idealism

Further reading

• "idealism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 152.

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Romanian

Etymology

From French idéalisme. Equivalent to ideal +‎ -ism.

Noun

idealism n (uncountable)

1. idealism

Declension

declension of idealism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) idealism	idealismul
genitive/dative	(unui) idealism	idealismului
vocative	idealismule

Related terms

• idealist