Definition of Idealisms

1. Noun. (plural of idealism) ¹

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Definition of Idealisms

1. idealism [n] - See also: idealism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealisms

ideal
ideal-seeking behavior
ideal alveolar gas
ideal gas
ideal gas law
ideal solid
idealess
idealessness
idealisation
idealisations
idealise
idealised
idealises
idealising
idealism
idealisms (current term)
idealist
idealistic
idealistically
idealists
idealities
ideality
idealizable
idealization
idealizations
idealize
idealized
idealizer
idealizers
idealizes

Literary usage of Idealisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"... existence—Value of idealism considered from point of view of the religious sentiment—Most specious of contemporary idealisms : Possibility of universal ..."

2. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt: With Reminiscences of Friends and by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"idealisms familiarized.—The Arcadians of Italy.—Spenser, Milton, and other cockney poets.—Graces and anxieties of pig-driving. ..."

3. Critical Realism: A Study of the Nature and Conditions of Knowledge by Roy Wood Sellars (1916)
"As a rule, these stuff idealisms establish themselves by means of the ... Realistic idealisms vary all the way from the crudest mind-stuff theories, ..."

4. The Maze of the Nations and the Way Out by Gaius Glenn Atkins (1915)
"Philosophies and idealisms seemed so far from the man in the street that we were not able to get him to take any interest either in his own idealisms or the ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1851)
"Whatever idealisms therefore you pour into ... On the other hand, by hurling the Germans from the cloudy pinnacle of idealisms whence they send forth their ..."

6. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"For there exist, in the first place, a number of idealisms which more or less ... All these idealisms, therefore, if they fail at all, fail at other points ..."

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