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Definition of Idealistic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas.
2. Adjective. Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style. "A grand purpose"
Similar to: Noble
Derivative terms: Grandness, High-mindedness, Idealism, Noble-mindedness
Definition of Idealistic
1. a. Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
Definition of Idealistic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an idealist or to idealism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idealistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealistic
Literary usage of Idealistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Present Conflict of Ideals: A Study of the Philosophical Background of by Ralph Barton Perry (1918)
"I propose that we examine them in the following order: first, idealistic influences;
second, anti-idealistic influences; third, the reconciliation of the ..."
2. An Introductory Study of Ethics by Warner Fite (1903)
"THE idealistic BIOLOGY It is evident that the idealistic theory of the psychical
process presupposes an idealistic theory of biological evolution. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The religious turn that idealistic metaphysics had taken was due directly, ...
The effects of this idealistic development are apparent in the positive ..."
4. Individualism: Four Lectures on the Significance of Consciousness for Social by Warner Fite (1911)
"Turning now to the opposite, or idealistic theory, we must note that a society
of conscious individuals cannot appropriately be regarded as a mere group. ..."
5. The Problem of Knowledge by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1915)
"The idealistic type of epistemological monism, at least in its usual forms, would
avoid the • dualism by eliminating the other term, the independent reality ..."
6. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"CHAPTER LX THE idealistic MOVEMENT If post-Cartesian philosophy is to be ...
The idealistic movement, which was represented by Leibniz and Berkeley, ..."
7. Principles of Political Economy by Wilhelm Roscher, John Joseph Lalor, Louis Wolowski (1878)
"THE idealistic METHOD. Any one who has read a goodly number of idealistic works
treating of public economy (the state, law etc.) cannot have failed to be ..."
8. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"O. THE MECHANICAL THEORY OF PHYLLOTAXY AND THE idealistic CONCEPTION OF NATURE.
Because of the important bearing of this subject upon the true idealistic ..."
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